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The Forsyte Saga
Volume II.

CHAPTER III--SOAMES PREPARES TO TAKE STEPS
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Or would pointing a pistol count?
Or being too drunk to undress himself, or--No--I can't bring in the children." "No," said Soames; "no! I wonder! Of course, there's legal separation--we can get that.

But separation! Um!" "What does it mean ?" asked Winifred desolately.
"That he can't touch you, or you him; you're both of you married and unmarried." And again he grunted.

What was it, in fact, but his own accursed position, legalised! No, he would not put her into that! "It must be divorce," he said decisively; "failing cruelty, there's desertion.

There's a way of shortening the two years, now.

We get the Court to give us restitution of conjugal rights.


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