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The Awkward Age

BOOK FIFTH
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If you had you'd have called on me--I've given you plenty of hints and little coughs.

Now, you see, I don't cough any more--I just rush at you and grab you.

You don't call on me--so I call on YOU.

There isn't any indecency moreover that I won't commit for my child." Mr.Longdon's impenetrability crashed like glass at the elbow-touch of this large handsome practised woman, who walked for him, like some brazen pagan goddess, in a cloud of queer legend.

He looked off at her child, who, at a distance and not hearing them, had not moved.


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