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Some Short Stories

CHAPTER II
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But are they shown as paying for their romance ?" "My dear lady," said Voyt, "their romance is their badness.

There isn't any other.

It's a hard law, if you will, and a strange, but goodness has to go without that luxury.

Isn't to BE good just exactly, all round, to go without ?" He put it before her kindly and clearly--regretfully too, as if he were sorry the truth should be so sad.

He and she, his pleasant eyes seemed to say, would, had they had the making of it, have made it better.


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