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Man and Wife

CHAPTER THE FIFTH
10/16

We must separate afterward--or how are we to keep it a secret ?" "Certainly.

You will go back, of course, to your brother's house, as if nothing had happened." "And what is to become of _you ?_" "I shall go to London." "What are you to do in London ?" "Haven't I already told you that I have thought of every thing?
When I get to London I shall apply to some of my mother's old friends--friends of hers in the time when she was a musician.

Every body tells me I have a voice--if I had only cultivated it.

I _will_ cultivate it! I can live, and live respectably, as a concert singer.

I have saved money enough to support me, while I am learning--and my mother's friends will help me, for her sake." So, in the new life that she was marking out, was she now unconsciously reflecting in herself the life of her mother before her.


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