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This attitude was part of a system, a theory, that she had lately
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"That's a beautiful sophism," said the girl with a smile more
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of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with
propriety to tell me." She paused a moment, but not long enough for
her companion to reply. He was apparently on the point of doing so
when she went on: "Let me say this to you, Mr. Goodwood. You're so
kind as to speak of being afraid of my marrying. If you should hear
a rumour that I'm on the point of doing so- girls are liable to have
such things said about them- remember what I have told you about my
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these places so arranged and so touching each other- comes to strike
one as rather small."
"It's a sight too big for me!" Caspar exclaimed with a simplicity
our young lady might have found touching if her face had not been
set against concessions.
This attitude was part of a system, a theory, that she had lately
embraced newport cigarettes, and to be thorough she said after a moment: "Don't think
me unkind if I say it's just that- being out of your sight- that I
like. If you were in the same place I should feel you were watching
me, and I don't like that- I like my liberty too much. If there's a
thing in the world I'm fond of," she went on with a slight
----------------------- 242-----------------------
recurrence of grandeur marlboro gold pack, "it's my personal independence."
But whatever there might be of the too superior in this speech moved
Caspar Goodwood's admiration; there was nothing he winced at in the
large air of it. He had never supposed she hadn't wings and the need
of beautiful free movements- he wasn't, with his own long arms and
strides, afraid of any force in her. Isabel's words, if they had
been meant to shock him www.newports-cigarettes.com, failed of the mark and only made him smile
with the sense that here was common ground. "Who would wish less to
curtail your liberty than I? What can give me greater pleasure than to
see you perfectly independent- doing whatever you like? It's to make
you independent that I want to marry you.
"That's a beautiful sophism," said the girl with a smile more
beautiful still.
"An ummarried woman- a girl of your age- isn't independent. There
are all sorts of things she can't do. She's hampered at every step."
"That's as she looks at the question newport cigarettes for usa," Isabel answered with much
spirit. not in my first youth- I can do what I choose- I belong
quite to the independent class. I've neither father nor mother; I'm
poor and of a serious disposition; I'm not pretty. I therefore am
not bound to be timid and conventional; indeed I can't afford such
luxuries. Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I
think, is more honourable than not to judge at all. I don't wish to be
a mere sheep in the flock; I wish to choose my fate and know something
----------------------- 243-----------------------
of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with
propriety to tell me." She paused a moment, but not long enough for
her companion to reply. He was apparently on the point of doing so
when she went on: "Let me say this to you, Mr. Goodwood. You're so
kind as to speak of being afraid of my marrying. If you should hear
a rumour that I'm on the point of doing so- girls are liable to have
such things said about them- remember what I have told you about my
love of liberty and venture to doubt it."
There was something passionately positive in the tone in which she
gave him this advice, and he saw a shining candour in her eyes that
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