[White Lies by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookWhite Lies CHAPTER XVII 12/29
I have many faults, but jealous I am not." "Oh, yes, you are, and suspicious, too; there is something in your character that alarms me for our happiness." "Well, if you come to that, there are things in YOUR conduct I could wish explained." "There! I said so.
You have not confidence in me." "Pray don't say that, dear Rose.
I have every confidence in you; only please don't ask me to divest myself of my senses and my reason." "I don't ask you to do that or anything else for me; good-by, for the present." "Where are you going now? tic! tic! I never can get a word in peace with you." "I am not going to commit murder.
I'm only going up-stairs to my sister." "Poor Madame Raynal, she makes it very hard for me not to dislike her." "Dislike my Josephine ?" and Rose bristled visibly. "She is an angel, but I should hate an angel if it came forever between you and me." "Excuse me, she was here long before you.
It is you that came between her and me." "I came because I was told I should be welcome," said Edouard bitterly, and equivocating a little; he added, "and I dare say I shall go when I am told I am one too many." "Bad heart! who says you are one too many in the house? But you are too exigent, monsieur; you assume the husband, and you tease me.
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