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Speaker 1: Section twenty of The Dream, a novel. This is a
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Speaker 1: Section twenty, Chapter six, Marriage in Wartime, Part seven and eight.
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Speaker 2: Part seven.
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Speaker 1: Oh poor little things, cried starlight, Oh poor little, pitiful,
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Speaker 1: pitiless creatures. This story hurts me. I couldn't endure it
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Speaker 1: if it were anything more.
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Speaker 2: Than a dream.
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Speaker 1: Why were they all so hard upon each other and
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Speaker 1: so to the sorrow in each other? We knew no better.
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Speaker 1: This world now has a tempered air. In this world
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Speaker 1: we breathe mercy with our first flattering gasp. We are
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Speaker 1: so taught and trained to think of others that their
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Speaker 1: pain is ours. But two thousand years ago men and
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Speaker 1: women were half way back to crude nature. Our motives
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Speaker 1: took us unawares. We breathe infections, Our food was poisoned,
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Speaker 1: our passions were fevers. We were only beginning to learn
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Speaker 1: the art of being human. But didn't Fanny begin Firefly, Yes,
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Speaker 1: said Willow. Didn't Fanny, who was naturally so wise about
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Speaker 1: love didn't she take you in hand and send you
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Speaker 1: back to forgive and help your wretched Hetty. Fanny heard
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Speaker 1: my version of our story first, said Sarnak. She never
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Speaker 1: realized the true values of the business until it was
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Speaker 1: too late to stop the divorce. When I told her
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Speaker 1: that Hetty had lived a life of depravity in London
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Speaker 1: while I was in the trenches, she heard me with amazement,
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Speaker 1: but never doubted my word. And she seemed such a deer,
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Speaker 1: said Fanny. She seemed so in love with you. It's
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Speaker 1: wonderful how different women are. There's women who seemed to
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Speaker 1: change into something else directly they get out outside of
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Speaker 1: you round the corner. I liked your.
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Speaker 2: Heady, Harry.
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Speaker 1: There was something sweet about her, be what she may.
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Speaker 1: I never dreamt she'd deceive you and let you down.
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Speaker 1: Fancy going about London picking up men. Is just as
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Speaker 1: though she'd done it to me. Matilda Good too, was
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Speaker 1: wonderfully sympathetic. No woman goes wrong only just once, said Matilda.
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Speaker 1: You are right to end it. The Miltons were giving
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Speaker 1: up her drawing room floor. I could have it if
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Speaker 1: I cared to take it. I was only too glad
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Speaker 1: to take it and return to my old home. Hetty,
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Speaker 1: I suppose packed up her own belongings as well as
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Speaker 1: she could. She went down from Richmond to her mother's
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Speaker 1: farm at Peyton Links, and there it was her child
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Speaker 1: was born. Now, I want to tell you, said Sarnak,
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Speaker 1: what is I believe the most remarkable thing in all
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Speaker 1: this story. I'm telling you, I do not remember, in
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Speaker 1: all that time, right up to end, including our divorce,
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Speaker 1: that I felt any impulse of pity or kindliness, much
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Speaker 1: less of love towards Hetty. And yet in my dream
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Speaker 1: I was very much the same sort of man as
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Speaker 1: I am today. I was a man of the same type.
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Speaker 1: But I was driven by a storm of amazed and
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Speaker 1: outraged pride and sexual jealousy of the most frantic sort,
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Speaker 1: towards acts of spite that are almost inconceivable hearing now,
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Speaker 1: I was doing all I could to divorce Heady in
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Speaker 1: such a way as to force her into marriage with Sumner,
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Speaker 1: for that was the man's name. Because I had learned
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Speaker 1: that he was a hopelessly bad character, and because I
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Speaker 1: believed he would make her miserable and marror her life
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Speaker 1: life altogether. I wanted to do that, to punish her,
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Speaker 1: to fill her with bitter regrets for her treatment of me.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time it drove me to the
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Speaker 1: verge of madness to think that he should ever possess
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Speaker 1: her again. If my wishes could have been given creative force,
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Speaker 1: Hetry would have gone to Sumner, disfigured and diseased. They
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Speaker 1: would have come together again amidst circumstances of horrible cruelty.
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Speaker 1: Sarna cried Sandrey, that you should even dream such things.
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Speaker 2: Dream.
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Speaker 1: It is as men were, It is as they are,
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Speaker 1: except for the education and the free happiness that released us.
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Speaker 1: For we are not four score generations from the age
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Speaker 1: of Confusion, And that was but a few thousands more
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Speaker 1: from the hairy apemen who bade the moon in the
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Speaker 1: primeval forests of Europe. Then it was the old man
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Speaker 1: in lust and anger ruled his herd of women and children.
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Speaker 2: And begot us all.
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Speaker 1: And in the age of Confusion, after the great wars
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Speaker 1: man was and he still is, the child of that
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Speaker 1: hairy old apemen. Don't I shave myself daily? And don't
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Speaker 1: we educate and legislate with our utmost skill and science
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Speaker 1: to keep the old beast within bounds. But our schools
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Speaker 1: in the days of Harry Mortimer Smith, were still half
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Speaker 1: way back to the cave. Our science was only beginning.
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Speaker 1: We had no sexual education at all, only concealments and repressions.
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Speaker 1: Our code was still the code of jealousy, thinly disguised.
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Speaker 1: The pride and self respect of a man was still
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Speaker 1: bound up with the animal possession of women. The pride
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Speaker 1: and self respect of most women was, by a sort
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Speaker 1: of reflection, bound up with the animal possession of a man.
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Speaker 1: We felt that this possession was the keystone of life.
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Speaker 1: Any failure in this central business involved a monstrous abasement,
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Speaker 1: and against that our poor souls sought blindly for the
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Speaker 1: most extravagant consolations.
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Speaker 2: We hit things, we.
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Speaker 1: Perverted, and misrepresented things, We evaded the issue. Man is
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Speaker 1: a creature which, under nearly every sort of stress releases
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Speaker 1: hate and malign action. And we were then still subjected
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Speaker 1: to the extremest stresses. But I will not go on
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Speaker 1: apologizing for Harry Mortimer Smith. He was what a world
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Speaker 1: made him end.
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Speaker 2: So are we.
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Speaker 1: And in my dream I went about that old world,
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Speaker 1: doing my work, control my outward behavior, and spending all
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Speaker 1: the force of my wounded love for Hetty in scheming
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Speaker 1: for her misery, and one thing in particular was of
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Speaker 1: immense importance to my tormented being. It was that I
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Speaker 1: should get another lover quickly, that I should dispel the
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Speaker 1: magic of Hetty's embraces lay the haunting gost of my
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Speaker 1: desire for her. I had to persuade myself that I
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Speaker 1: had never really loved her, and replace her in my
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Speaker 1: heart by someone I could persuade myself was my own
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Speaker 1: true love. So I sought to company of Millie Kimpton again.
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Speaker 1: We had been close companions before the war, and it
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Speaker 1: was not difficult to persuade myself that I had always
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Speaker 1: been a little in love with her. Always she had
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Speaker 1: been more than a little in love with me. I
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Speaker 1: told her my story of my marriage, and she was
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Speaker 1: hurt for my sake and indignant beyond means. With a
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Speaker 1: heady I presented to her, she married me within a
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Speaker 1: week of the completion of my divorce.
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Speaker 2: Part eight.
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Speaker 1: Millie was faithful and Millie was kind. She was a
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Speaker 1: cooling refuge from the heat and distresses of my passion.
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Speaker 1: She had a broad, candid face that never looked either
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Speaker 1: angry or miserable. She held her countenance high, smiling towards
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Speaker 1: heaven with a pleasant confidence and self satisfaction.
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Speaker 2: She was very fair, and she was broad shouldered for
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Speaker 2: a woman.
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Speaker 1: She was tender, but not passioned. She was intelligently interested
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Speaker 1: in things, but without much whim or humor.
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Speaker 2: She was nearly a year and a half older than I.
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Speaker 1: She had, as people used to say, taken a great
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Speaker 1: fancy to me when first I came into the form
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Speaker 1: a crude and inexperienced youngster. She had seen me rise
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Speaker 1: very rapidly to mister Cheeseman's position on the editorial stuff
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Speaker 1: he had been transferred to the printing side, and at
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Speaker 1: times she had helped me greatly. We were both popular
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Speaker 1: in Thunderstone House, and when we married there was a
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Speaker 1: farewell dinner to Milly, who gave up her position. Then
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Speaker 1: in the counting house there were speeches and one waiful
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Speaker 1: wedding present of dinner knives and silver forks and spoons
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Speaker 1: in a brass bound chest of oak with a flattering
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Speaker 1: inscription on a silver plate. There had been a good
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Speaker 1: deal of sympathy with Milly in Thunderstone House, especially among
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Speaker 1: the girls, and a good deal of indignation at me
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Speaker 1: when my first marriage occurred in my belated recognition of
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Speaker 1: my true destiny was considered a very romantic and satisfactory end.
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Speaker 2: To the story.
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Speaker 1: We secured a convenient little house in a row of
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Speaker 1: stackle houses, all built together to have one architectural effect,
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Speaker 1: called Chester Terrace, close to one of the inner parks
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Speaker 1: of London known as Richard's Park. MILLI, I discovered, had
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Speaker 1: a little fortune of nearly two thousand pounds, and so
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Speaker 1: she was able to furnish this house very prettily according
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Speaker 1: to current taste. And in this house, in due course
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Speaker 1: she bore me a son. I rejoiced very greatly and
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Speaker 1: conspicuously over these youngsters arrival. I think you will understand
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Speaker 1: how essential it was to my obsession for defeating and
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Speaker 1: obliterating Heavy that Milly should.
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Speaker 2: Bear me a child.
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Speaker 1: I worked very hard during that first year of married life,
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Speaker 1: and on the whole I was happy. But it was
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Speaker 1: not a very rich nor a very deep sort of happiness.
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Speaker 1: It was a happiness made up of rather hard and
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Speaker 1: rather superficial satisfactions. In a sense, I loved Milly very dearly.
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Speaker 1: Her value was above rubies. She was honest and sweet
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Speaker 1: and complacant. She liked me enormously She was made happy
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Speaker 1: by my attentions. She helped me, watched for my comfort,
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Speaker 1: rejoiced at the freshness and vigor of my work. Yet
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Speaker 1: we did not talk very freely and easily together. I
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Speaker 1: could not let my mind run on before her. I
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Speaker 1: had to shape what I said to her feelings and standards,
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Speaker 1: and they were very different feelings and standards from my own.
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Speaker 1: She was everything a wife should be, except in one matter.
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Speaker 1: She was not for me that particular dear companion for
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Speaker 1: whom the heart of every human being craves, that dear
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Speaker 1: companion with whom you are happy and free and safe,
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Speaker 1: That dear companionship I had met, and I had thrust
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Speaker 1: it from me. Does it come twice in a life
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Speaker 1: to anyone? How should I know? Said Sandray. We know
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Speaker 1: better than to reject it, said Radiant. Perhaps after many years,
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Speaker 1: said Willow, answering Sarnak's question, after one has healed and
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Speaker 1: grown and changed. Milly and I were close friends, indeed,
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Speaker 1: but we were never dear companions.
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Speaker 2: I had told Hetty about.
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Speaker 1: My sister Fanny on the evening of our first day together,
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Speaker 1: when we walked over the hills. She was instantly sure
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Speaker 1: that she would love Fanny. Fanny had seemed very brave
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Speaker 1: and romantic to Hatty's imagination, But I did not tell
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Speaker 1: Millia of Fanny until close upon our marriage. You will
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Speaker 1: say that it was not Mealy's fault that I was
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Speaker 1: shy with her on Fanny's account, But assuredly it was
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Speaker 1: a fault in our relationship, and it was clear that
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Speaker 1: Millia accepted Fanny on my account and refrained from too
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Speaker 1: searching a commentary because of me. Merely believed profoundly in
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Speaker 1: the institution of marriage and in the obligation of an
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Speaker 1: unlimited chastity upon women. It's a pity she cannot marry
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Speaker 1: this man, said Milly, anticipating perplexities. It must make everything
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Speaker 1: so inconvenient for her and everyone who knows her. It
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Speaker 1: must be so difficult to introduce her to people. You
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Speaker 1: needn't do that, I said. My people are all fashioned.
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Speaker 1: They needn't know.
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Speaker 2: I said, that would be easy way for me, Harry.
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Speaker 1: I found my own declarations of affection for Fanny considerably
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Speaker 1: chilled by the effort Merely made to be generous in
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Speaker 1: the matter. I found it's still more difficult to tell
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Speaker 1: her that Fanny's lover was Newberry then, is that how
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Speaker 1: you got into a thunderstone house, asked Milly, when at
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Speaker 1: last I got to that revelation. It's how I got
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Speaker 1: my chance there, I admitted. I didn't think it was
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Speaker 1: like that. I thought you'd made your way in. I've
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Speaker 1: made my way up. I've never been favored. Yes, but
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Speaker 1: do you think people know, Harry? They'd say all sorts
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Speaker 1: of things. You perceived that Milly was not a very
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Speaker 1: clever woman, and also that she was very jealous of
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Speaker 1: my honor. I don't think anyone knows who matters, I said.
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Speaker 1: Neither I nor Fanny advertise, But it was clear Millie
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Speaker 1: did not like the situation. She would have much preferred
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Speaker 1: a world without sister Fanny. She had no curiosity to
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Speaker 1: see this sister that I loved so dearly, or to
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Speaker 1: find any good in her. On various small but quite
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Speaker 1: valied scores. She put off going to see her for
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Speaker 1: a whole week, and always I had to remind her
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Speaker 1: of Fanny and speak of Fanny first, before Fanny could be.
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Speaker 2: Talked about in all other matters.
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Speaker 1: Millie was charming and delightful to me, but as far
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Speaker 1: as she could contrive it, she banished Fanny from our world.
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Speaker 1: She could not see how much of my affection went
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Speaker 1: also into banishment. Their meeting, when at last it came about,
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Speaker 1: was right, rather than warm and invisible. A terminous screen
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Speaker 1: had fallen, not only between Milly and Fanny, but between
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Speaker 1: Fannie and myself. Millie had come resolved to be generous
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Speaker 1: and agreeable in spite of Vennie's disadvantage status, and I
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Speaker 1: think she was a little disconcerted by Fannie's dress and furniture.
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Speaker 1: For Millia was always very sensitive to furniture, and her
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Speaker 1: sensitiveness had been enhanced by our own efforts to ecupe
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Speaker 1: a delightful home on a sufficient but not too extravagant expenditure.
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Speaker 1: I had always thought Fanny's furnishings very pretty, but it
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Speaker 1: had never occurred to me that they were, as Milly
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Speaker 1: put it, dreadfully good. But there was a red lacquer
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Speaker 1: cabinet that Milly said afterwards might be worth as much
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Speaker 1: as one hundred pounds. And she added one of those
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Speaker 1: sentences that came upon one like an unexpected threat of
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Speaker 1: gossamer upon the face. It doesn't seem right. Somehow, Fanny's
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Speaker 1: simple dress I gathered.
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Speaker 2: Was far too good.
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Speaker 1: Also, simple dresses were the cost least in those days
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Speaker 1: of abandoned material and insufficient skill. But these were subsequent revelations,
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Speaker 1: and at the time I did not understand why there
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Speaker 1: should be an obscure undertone of resentment in Melia's manner,
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Speaker 1: nor why Fanny was displaying a sort of stiff sweetness
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Speaker 1: quite foreign to my impression of her. It's wonderful to
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Speaker 1: meet you at last, said Fanny. He's talked about you
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Speaker 1: for years. I can remember once, long before, long before
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Speaker 1: the war and everything at Hampton Court. I can remember
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Speaker 1: sitting on those seats by the river, and he's talking
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Speaker 1: about you. I remember that, I said, though it wasn't
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Speaker 1: the part about Milly that had stuck in my memory.
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Speaker 1: We used to go about together no end in those days,
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Speaker 1: said Fanny. He was the dearest of brothers. I hope
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Speaker 1: he'll still be, said Milly.
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Speaker 2: Very kindly.
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Speaker 1: A son's a son till he gets a wife, said Fanny,
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Speaker 1: quoting an old woman's proverb. You mustn't say that, said Milly.
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Speaker 1: I hope you'll come to see us quite often. I'd
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Speaker 1: love to come, said Fanny. You are lucky to get
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Speaker 1: a house so easily these days. It isn't quite ready yet,
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Speaker 1: said Milly. But as soon as ever it is, we
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Speaker 1: must find someday when you are free. I'm often free,
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Speaker 1: said Fanny. We'll fix a day, said Mealy, obviously quite
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Speaker 1: resolute to ensure that we had no unexpected calls from
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Speaker 1: Fanny when other people might be about. It is nice
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Speaker 1: you have been in the counting House and understanding all
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Speaker 1: about his work, said Fanny. My people didn't like my
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Speaker 1: going into business at all, said Milly. But it's lucky
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Speaker 1: I did lucky for Harry, said Fanny. Are your people
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Speaker 1: London people, dor said, said Milly. They didn't like my
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Speaker 1: coming to London. They are just a little bit churchy
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Speaker 1: and old fashioned, you know. But it's college or business,
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Speaker 1: I said. And you don't find mistake at home to
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Speaker 1: dust and put out the flowers.
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Speaker 2: One has to take a.
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Speaker 1: Firm line with wils people at times, didn't you find that?
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Speaker 1: So there was a convenient aunt in Bedford Park to
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Speaker 1: secure the proprieties and head off the otherwise inevitable latch key.
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Speaker 1: And it was business instead of college because my best uncle,
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Speaker 1: uncle Hereward, he's the vicar of Pedleborn, objects to the
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Speaker 1: higher education of women, and there was also a question
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Speaker 1: of finance. It must be interesting for Harry to meet
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Speaker 1: your people, said Fanny. He's completely conquered, Aunt Rachel, said Milly,
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Speaker 1: though she started hostile naturally, as I'm about the only
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Speaker 1: Kimpton of three generations. They pitched the expectations high. They'd
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Speaker 1: like me to have a hut spent with a pedigree
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Speaker 1: a yard long. I felt Millie was rather overemphasizing the
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Speaker 1: county family side of the Kimptons. Her father was a
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Speaker 1: veterinary surgeon near Wimborne. But I did not appreciate the
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Speaker 1: qualities in Finnish bearing and furniture that were putting Milly
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Speaker 1: into the safe, assertive mood. They went on to talk
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Speaker 1: with a certain flavor of unreality, of the hygienic and
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Speaker 1: social advantages of Richard's Park. It's easy to get to
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Speaker 1: for one's friends, said Milly. And quite a lot of
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Speaker 1: interesting people, actors and critics and writers and all that
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Speaker 1: sort of people live around and about there. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Harry will want to know more and more of the
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Speaker 1: artistic and the literary world. Now I expect we'll have
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Speaker 1: to have a day for them and give them tea
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Speaker 1: and sandwiches. It's a bore, but it's necessary. You know,
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Speaker 1: Harry's got to know people. She smiled at me, between
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Speaker 1: pride and patronage. Harry's going up in the world, said
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Speaker 1: my sister. That's what makes it all so wonderful, said Millie.
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Speaker 1: He's a wonderful brother for you. She began to praise
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Speaker 1: the beauty of Fanny's flat, and Fanny offered to show
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Speaker 1: her all over it. They were away sometime, and I
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Speaker 1: went to the window, wishing, stupidly, after the manner of
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Speaker 1: a man, that they could somehow contrive to be a
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Speaker 1: little different and a little warmer with each other. Didn't
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Speaker 1: they both love me? And shouldn't that be a bond
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Speaker 1: of sisterhood between them? Then came tea, one of Fanny's
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Speaker 1: wonderful teas. But I was not no longer the indiscriminate
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Speaker 1: devourer of teas that I had been. Milly praised it
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Speaker 1: all like a visiting duchess. Well, said Milly, at last,
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Speaker 1: with the air of one who has many appointments.
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Speaker 2: It is time to go.
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Speaker 1: I'm afraid I had been watching Fenny very closely throughout
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Speaker 1: this visit, and contrasting her guarded and polished civilities with
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Speaker 1: the natural warmth of her reception of Hetty half a
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Speaker 1: year before, I felt I could not wait for another
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Speaker 1: occasion before I had a word or two with her,
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Speaker 1: so I kissed her goodbye. Even her kiss had changed,
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Speaker 1: and she and Milly hesitated and kissed, and I went
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Speaker 1: down past the landing with Milly and heard.
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Speaker 2: The door close above.
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Speaker 1: I've lift my gloves, I said, suddenly, you go one down.
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Speaker 1: I won't be a moment, and I darted back upstairs.
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Speaker 1: Fanny did not come to the door immediately. What is it, Harry,
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Speaker 1: she said. When she appeared, gloves said I no, here,
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Speaker 1: they are in my pocket.
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Speaker 2: Silly of me.
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Speaker 1: You do like her, Fanny. You think she is all right,
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Speaker 1: don't you. She's a little shy with you, but she
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Speaker 1: is a deer.
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Speaker 2: Fanny looked at me.
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Speaker 1: I thought her eyes were hard. She's all right, she said,
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Speaker 1: quite all right. You will never have to divorce, For Harry.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know I want you to like her. I
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Speaker 1: thought you didn't seem quite warm. Selly, old Harry, said Fanny,
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Speaker 1: with a sudden return to her old manner, and she
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Speaker 1: took me and kissed me like a loving sister again.
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Speaker 1: I went down two steps from the door and turned.
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Speaker 1: I'd hate it, I said, if you didn't think she
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Speaker 1: was all right. She is all right, said Fanny. And
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Speaker 1: it's good luck to you, Harry, it is you see,
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Speaker 1: it's about goodbye for me. I shan't be seeing very
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Speaker 1: much of you now, with that clever wife of yours
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Speaker 1: to take you about, who was so well connected. But
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Speaker 1: good luck, old brother, oh always good luck.
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Speaker 2: Her eyes were bringing with tears.
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Speaker 1: God send you are happy, Harry, dear after your fashion.
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Speaker 2: It is different. She stopped short. She was weeping.
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Speaker 1: She banged her door upon me, and I stood puzzled
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Speaker 1: for a moment, and then went down to Milly.
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Speaker 2: End of section twenty se