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Halcyone

CHAPTER VIII
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"She has taught me a number of things in the last two years.

I am grateful to her.

Next season she is bringing a daughter out--and she has a wonderful sense of the fitness of things." Then he sipped his tea and got up and strolled towards the windows.
"Besides," he continued, "I do not admit there are any ties to be contracted.

The Greeks understood the place of women; all this nonsense of vows of fidelity and exaltation of sentiment in the home cramps a man's ambitions.

It is perfectly natural that he should take a wife if his position calls for it, because the society in which we move has made a figurehead of that kind necessary.


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