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The Miller Of Old Church

CHAPTER V
15/19

It's all your fault anyway, for not falling in love with Judy Hatch, as I told you to." "Don't worry.

Perhaps I shall in the end.

Your tantrums would wear the patience of a Job out at last.

It seems that you can't help despising a man just as soon as he happens to love you." "I wonder if that's true ?" she said a little sadly, turning away from him until her eyes rested on the green rise of ground over the meadow, "I've seen men like that as soon as they were sure of their wives, and I've hated them for it." "What I can't understand," he pursued, not without bitterness, "is why in thunder a man or a woman who isn't married should put up with it for an instant ?" At his words she left the door and came slowly back to his side, where he bent over the meal trough.
"The truth is that I like you better than anyone in the world, except grandfather," she said, "but I hate love-making.

When I see that look in a man's face and feel the touch of his hands upon me I want to strike out and kill.


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