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From the Housetops

CHAPTER VIII
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He knows it's love, or stupidity, or morality, but it is never duplicity.
Before he got through with it, Simmy had worked himself into a state of desperation.

Regarding himself with unprejudiced eyes he saw that he was not the sort of man a girl would choose for a husband unless he had something besides a happy, loving disposition to offer.

She would marry him for his money, of course; certainly he would be the last to suspect her of marrying him for his beauty.

He had never thought of it in this light before, and he was wet with the sweat of anguish.

He could never be sure! He could love a woman with all his heart and soul, and still never be sure of her! Were all the girls he had loved in his college days--But here he stopped.


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