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The Common Law

CHAPTER IV
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It's purely a matter of personal taste, dear.
Valerie West inhabits a world that suits her." "Has she had any choice in the matter ?" "I--yes.

She's had the sense and the courage to keep out of the various unsafe planets where electric light furnishes the principal illumination." "But has she had a chance for choosing a better planet than the one you say she prefers?
Your choice was free.

Was hers ?" "Look here, Lily! Why on earth are you so significant about a girl you never saw--scarcely ever heard of--" "Dear, I have not told you everything.

I _have_ heard of her--of her charm, her beauty, her apparent innocence--yes, her audacity, her popularity with men....

Such things are not unobserved and unreported between your new planet and mine.


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