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The Awkward Age

BOOK SEVENTH
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But not THE kind." "Yes"-- he wondered--"I suppose that's the only way one can name it." It appeared to rise there before him.

"THE kind!" "The kind that would make me painful to you.

Or rather not me perhaps," she added as if to create between them the fullest possible light; "but my situation, my exposure--all the results of them I show.

Doesn't one become a sort of a little drain-pipe with everything flowing through ?" "Why don't you call it more gracefully," Mitchy asked, freshly struck, "a little aeolian-harp set in the drawing-room window and vibrating in the breeze of conversation ?" "Oh because the harp gives out a sound, and WE--at least we try to--give out none." "What you take, you mean, you keep ?" "Well, it sticks to us.

And that's what you don't mind!" Their eyes met long on it.


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