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The Awkward Age

BOOK EIGHTH
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"And we're to have Harold too," she repeated.
"As a beneficiary?
Then we SHALL fill up! Harold will give us a stamp." "Won't he?
I hear of nothing but his success.

Mother wrote me that people are frantic for him; and," said the girl after an instant, "do you know what Cousin Jane wrote me ?" "What WOULD she now?
I'm trying to think." Nanda relieved him of this effort.

"Why that mother has transferred to him all the scruples she felt--'even to excess'-- in MY time, about what we might pick up among you all that wouldn't be good for us." "That's a neat one for ME!" Vanderbank declared.

"And I like your talk about your antediluvian 'time.'" "Oh it's all over." "What exactly is it," Vanderbank presently demanded, "that you describe in that manner ?" "Well, my little hour.

And the danger of picking up." "There's none of it here ?" Nanda appeared frankly to judge.


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