Awakening - To Let by John Galsworthy
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"You, darling."
"I? I said it had nothing to do with you." "Just what I think, you know; so that's all right." She was too sharp for him; fine, as Annette sometimes called her. Nothing for it but to distract her attention. "There's a bit of rosaline point in here," he said, stopping before a shop, "that I thought you might like." When he had paid for it and they had resumed their progress, Fleur said: "Don't you think that boy's mother is the most beautiful woman of her age you've ever seen?" Soames shivered. Uncanny, the way she stuck to it! "I don't know that I noticed her." "Dear, I saw the corner of your eye." "You see everything--and a great deal more, it seems to me!" "What's her husband like? He must be your first cousin, if your fathers were brothers." "Dead, for all I know," said Soames, with sudden vehemence. "I haven't seen him for twenty years." |
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