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The Portion of Labor

CHAPTER VIII
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I don't know what I should do if I thought Norman would marry again if I died.

I think one husband and one wife is enough for any man or woman if they believe in the resurrection.

It has always seemed to me that the answer to that awful question in the New Testament, as to whose wife that woman who had so many husbands would be in the other world, meant that people who had done so much marrying on earth would have to be old maids and old bachelors in heaven.

George ought to be ashamed of himself, and Cynthia ought to keep that child." Ever since she had been very solicitously friendly towards Cynthia, who had always imperceptibly held herself aloof from her, owing to a difference in degree.

Cynthia had no prejudices of mind, but many of nerves, and this woman was distinctly not of her sort, though she had a certain liking for her.


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