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A MARRIAGE, PART II
She dreamt of the inn they had stopped at after her
suicide attempt, the flea-ridden hostel her husband had
angrily toted her to after the incident at the country
house. “Stop this—this humbugging,” he explained. We’re regarded as inflammable litter that
mustn’t be left about. "Mr. Like a petulant child he snapped. "She's glorious!" He knew that he must hoodwink this keeneyed Scot, even as he must hoodwink everybody: publicly, the devoted husband;
privately, the celibate. Why
wasn't the world full of love, when love made happiness? Why did people hide
their natural kindliness as if it were something shameful? Why shouldn't people
say what they thought and act as they were inclined? Why all this pother about
what one's neighbour thought, when this pother was not energized by any good
will? Why was truth avoided as the plague? Why did this young man have one
name on the hotel register and another on his lips? Why was she bothering about
him at all? Why should there be this inexplicable compassion, when the normal
sensation should have been repellance? Sidney Carton. “To be frank with you, Lady Lescelles, when your
brother asked me the other day to be his wife I was under a false impression as
regards his relations—with some other person. "
On quitting the Lodge, Wild repaired to his own habitation. A brief feeling of empathy with Pottiswick passed through him. Michelle opened the door to her the master
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bedroom. ’
‘Will you go back there?’ asked Gerald.
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