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The Awkward Age

BOOK EIGHTH
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"Yes--but only for a day or two.

He's coming tonight." "Good.

How delightful!" "He'll be glad to see you," Nanda said, looking at the flowers.
"Awfully kind of him when I've been such a brute." "How--a brute ?" "Well, I mean not writing--nor going back." "Oh I see," Nanda simply returned.
It was a simplicity that, clearly enough, made her friend a little awkward.

"Has he--a--minded?
Hut he can't have complained!" he quickly added.
"Oh he never complains." "No, no--it isn't in him.

But it's just that," said Vanderbank, "that makes one feel so base.


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