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The Awkward Age

BOOK SIXTH
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That's what's the matter with me.
Aggie, don't you see?
is the Duchess's morality, her virtue; which, by having it that way outside of you, as one may say, you can make a much better thing of.

The child has been for Jane, I admit, a capital little subject, but Jane has kept her on hand and finished her like some wonderful piece of stitching.

Oh as work it's of a soigne! There it is--to show.

A woman like me has to be HERSELF, poor thing, her virtue and her morality.

What will you have?
It's our lumbering English plan." "So that her daughter," Mitchy sympathised, "can only, by the arrangement, hope to become at the best her immorality and her vice ?" But Mrs.Brook, without an answer for the question, appeared suddenly to have plunged into a sea of thought.


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