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Look at your own case! Do you never analyze your own behaviour? You would if you lay on your back year in year out like me. You're maimed too." "No, am I?" Val reached for a fourth cushion. "Think o' that, now." "Or you wouldn't be content to hang on in Chilmark, riding over another man's property and squiring another man's wife. The shot that broke your arm broke your life.
Damn her cheerfulness! It was inconsiderate of Jerry to set me to squiring middle-aged dames while he spooned with his Freudian miracle in the conservatory. Strindberg indeed! Schnitzler, too, in all probability! While I invented mid-Victorian platitudes for the prosaic, "not very pretty" Miss Gore Bore! Bore Gore! Bah! I gave the necessary orders and went in to my work.
Vandewaters and Gracia Raglan talked more freely than they had ever done before. "Do you really like England?" she said to him; then, waving her hand lightly to the beeches and the clean-cropped grass through the window, "I mean do you like our 'trim parterres, our devotion to mere living, pleasure, sport, squiring, and that sort of thing?"
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