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The Awkward Age

BOOK FIFTH
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I get all I can out of each." "So now you're getting all you can out of ME ?" "All I can, my dear--all I can." He watched a little the flushed distance, then mildly broke out: "It IS, as you said just now, exciting! But it makes me"-- and he became abrupt again--"want you, as I've already told you, to come to MY place.

Not, however, that we may be still more mad together." The girl shared from the bench his contemplation.

"Do you call THIS madness ?" Well, he rather stuck to it.

"You spoke of it yourself as excitement.
You'll make of course one of your fine distinctions, but I take it in my rough way as a whirl.

We're going round and round." In a minute he had folded his arms with the same closeness Vanderbank had used--in a minute he too was nervously shaking his foot.


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