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The Awkward Age

BOOK SEVENTH
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There are beautiful, quite beautiful people who don't care for me.

The thing that's important to one is the thing one sees one's self, and it's quite enough if _I_ see what can be made of that child.
Marry her, Mitchy, and you'll see who she'll care for!" Mitchy kept his position; he was for the moment--his image of shortly before reversed--the one who appeared to sit happily and watch.

"It's too awfully pleasant your asking of me anything whatever!" "Well then, as I say, beautifully, grandly save her." "As you say, yes"-- he sympathetically inclined his head.

"But without making me feel exactly what you mean by it." "Keep her," Nanda returned, "from becoming like the Duchess." "But she isn't a bit like the Duchess in any of her elements.

She's a totally different thing." It was only for an instant, however, that this objection seemed to tell.


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