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"Well, sir," he continued, "Last night, my wife, she went out to a part they call Clapham, to take her tea and supper with an old friend of hers as lives there, and as they wanted to have a bit of woman-talk, like, I didn't go. So thinks I to myself, I'll go and see this here House of Commons.
I ain't casting no reflections on Jerry, mind," she hastened to warn them, blinking the tears away and leaving the twinkle in full possession; "but good as he is, and satisfying as his company is, he ain't a woman. And, my dear, a woman does get awful hungry sometimes for woman-talk!" "Santa Maria! that must be true. She shall come and let my mother be her friend also.
He was one to whom might be told, without shame, fear, or compunction, the plain, blunt, terrible truth. He understood. "I wish you'd look up Petronovich's boy, father," he might tell me, or, "Madame, have a woman-talk with Lovena Smith's girl at the mills, will you? Lovena's a fool, and that girl's up against things."
Thy father is well, but weary of this great town; and we both long to be at home." Then there was more about my Aunt Wynne, and some woman-talk for her friends about the new fashions, which do not concern her, she being not of this world. "Am I not?" she says. "I love it all the sea, even the sea, and flowers, and our woods, and, dear me! also gay gowns.
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