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Nobody’s Man

CHAPTER XII
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We really shan't need a crusade against the marriage laws.

The whole system is committing suicide as fast as it can." "How old are you ?" he asked.
"Twenty-four," she answered promptly.
"And supposing you fell in love--taking it for granted that you have not done so already--should you marry ?" Her eyes rested upon his, a little narrowed, curiously and pleasantly reflective.

All the time the corners of her sensitive mouth twitched a little.
"To tell you the truth," she confided, with a somewhat evasive air, "I have been so busy thinking out life for other people that I have never stopped to apply its general principles to myself." "You are a sophist," he declared.
"I have not your remarkable insight," she laughed mockingly..


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