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Mrs. Warren’s Daughter

CHAPTER XIV
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Perhaps I won't, when it comes to the pinch.

But somehow, I think, if they guess I have this knowledge in my possession, they will leave David Williams and Kate Warren alone.
Sometimes, d'you know, I wake up in the middle of the night at the Lilacs or in my reconstituted bedroom at 88-90, and wish I were quit of all this Suffrage business, all this vain struggle against predominant man--and away with you on a Pacific Island.

Then I realize that we should have large cockroaches and innumerable sand fleas in our new home, that we should have broken Linda's heart, have set back the Suffrage cause as much as Parnell's adultery postponed Home Rule; and above all that I am already thirty-five and shall soon be thirty-six and that it wouldn't be very long before you in comfort-loving middle age sighed for the well-ordered life of No.

1, Park Crescent, Portland Place! On the whole, I think the most rational line I can take is to continue resolutely this struggle for the Vote.

With the Vote must come the opening of Parliament to women.


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