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New Grub Street

CHAPTER VIII
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I have already been looking about.

I should like to find rooms for them somewhere near my own place; it's a decent neighbourhood, and the park is at hand, and then they wouldn't be very far from you.

They thought it might be possible to make a joint establishment with me, but I'm afraid that's out of the question.
The lodgings we should want in that case, everything considered, would cost more than the sum of our expenses if we live apart.

Besides, there's no harm in saying that I don't think we should get along very well together.

We're all of us rather quarrelsome, to tell the truth, and we try each other's tempers.' Marian smiled and looked puzzled.
'Shouldn't you have thought that ?' 'I have seen no signs of quarrelsomeness.' 'I'm not sure that the worst fault is on my side.


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