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The Woodlanders

CHAPTER XXVII
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That's right, that's right--go away!" "But no, I have not actually bought the practice as yet, though I am indeed in treaty for it.

And, my dear friend, if I continue to feel about the business as I feel at this moment--perhaps I may conclude never to go at all." "But you hate Hintock, and everybody and everything in it that you don't mean to take away with you ?" Fitzpiers contradicted this idea in his most vibratory tones, and she lapsed into the frivolous archness under which she hid passions of no mean strength--strange, smouldering, erratic passions, kept down like a stifled conflagration, but bursting out now here, now there--the only certain element in their direction being its unexpectedness.

If one word could have expressed her it would have been Inconsequence.

She was a woman of perversities, delighting in frequent contrasts.

She liked mystery, in her life, in her love, in her history.


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