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John Caldigate

CHAPTER XIX
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The general condition of things produced by the fall of Adam could not be used as an argument against matrimony generally.
Wicked as men and women are it is so evidently intended that they should marry and multiply, that even she would not deny the general propriety of such an arrangement.

Therefore when he was talking to her about their daughter, she was ill-treating him when on that occasion she flew away to her much-accustomed discourse.
'What's the use, then, of saying that men are wicked ?' 'They are.

They are!' 'Not a doubt about it.

And so are the women, but they've got to have husbands and wives.

They wouldn't be any the better if there were no marrying.


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