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The Awkward Age

BOOK SEVENTH
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I never lend any one whatever more." "It only adds to my conviction," Nanda explained, "that he writes to Mr.
Longdon." "But if Mr.Longdon doesn't say so-- ?" Vanderbank objected.
"Oh that proves nothing." She got up as she spoke.

"Harold also works Granny." He only laughed out at first for this, while she went on: "You'll think I make myself out fearfully deep--I mean in the way of knowing everything without having to be told.

That IS, as you say, mamma's great accomplishment, so it must be hereditary.

Besides, there seem to me only too many things one IS told.

Only Mr.Longdon has in fact said nothing." She had looked about responsibly--not to leave in disorder the garden-nook they had occupied; picking up a newspaper and changing the place of a cushion.


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