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The Awkward Age

BOOK FOURTH
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"You thought you succeeded so in hiding it?
No matter--she bears up.

I think she really feels a great deal as I do--that it's no matter how many of us you hate if you'll only go on feeling as you do about mamma.

Show us THAT--that's what we want." Nothing could have expressed more the balm of reassurance, but the mild drops had fallen short of the spot to which they were directed.

"'Show' you ?" Oh how he had sounded the word! "I see--you DON'T show.

That's just what Nanda saw you thought! But you can't keep us from knowing it--can't keep it in fact, I think, from affecting your own behaviour.


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