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‘You hate it?’
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‘Just because I had to stand at a counter?’
‘Not only that. It wasn’t fit for you to Halpa Moncler Takit Miehet work in that way — but the people about you! I hated every face of man or woman that passed along the street.’
‘I didn’t like the society.’
‘I should hope not. Of course, I know you didn’t. Why did you ever come to such a place?’
There was severity rather than sympathy in his look.
‘I was tired of the dull country life,’ Monica replied frankly. ‘And then I didn’t know what the shops and the people were like.’
‘Do you need a life of excitement?’ he asked, with a sidelong glance.
‘Excitement? No, but one must have change.’
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‘That is my house, Miss Madden — the right-hand one.
Monica looked, and saw two little villas, built together with stone facings, porches at the doors and ornamented gables.
‘I only wanted to show it you,’ he added quickly. ‘There’s nothing pretty or Neymar Jr Drakt noticeable about it, and it isn’t at all grandly furnished. My old housekeeper and one servant manage to keep it in order.’
They passed, and Monica did not allow herself to look back.
‘I think it’s a nice Scarpe Nike Air Max 90 Donna house,’ she said presently.
‘All my life I have wished to have a house of my own, but I didn’t dare to hope I ever should. Men in general don’t seem to care so long as Inter Milan Drakt Barn they have lodgings that suit them — I mean unmarried men. But I always wanted to live alone — without strangers, that is to say. I told you that I am not very sociable. W |
