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The Pool in the Desert

CHAPTER 1
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I would like to break the relation into pieces,' I went on recklessly, 'and throw it into the sea.

Such things should be tempered to one.

I should feel it much less if she occupied another cabin, and would consent to call me Elizabeth or Jane.

It is not as if I had been her mother always.

One grows fastidious at forty--new intimacies are only possible then on a basis of temperament--' I paused; it seemed to me that I was making excuses, and I had not the least desire in the world to do that.
'How awfully rough on the girl!' said Dacres Tottenham.
'That consideration has also occurred to me,' I said candidly, 'though I have perhaps been even more struck by its converse.' 'You had no earthly business to be her mother,' said my friend, with irritation.
I shrugged my shoulders--what would you have done ?--and opened 'La Duchesse Bleue'..


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