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CHAPTER SEVEN--ON THE PAVEMENT
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There is not between women that fund of at least conditional loyalty which men may depend on in their dealings with each other.

I believe that any woman would rather trust a man.

The difficulty in such a delicate case was how to get on terms.
So we held our peace in the odious uproar of that wide roadway thronged with heavy carts.

Great vans carrying enormous piled-up loads advanced swaying like mountains.

It was as if the whole world existed only for selling and buying and those who had nothing to do with the movement of merchandise were of no account.
"You must be tired," I said.


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