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"Why are you so personal, Mrs Pontellier? Why do you force es?" he exclai you I've been very busy, or that I've been sick,

or that I've been to see you and not found you at home Please let me

off with any one of these excuses"

"You are the embodi--I don't knohat--but there is so yourself you never consider for a lect and indifference I suppose this is what you would

call unwo myself It

doesn't matter to me, and you may think me unwomanly if you like"

"No; I only think you cruel, as I said the other day Maybe not

intentionally cruel; but you see ; as if you would haveat it, without the intention or power of healing

it"

"I' your dinner, Robert; never mind what I say You haven't

eaten a morsel"

"I only came in for a cup of coffee" His sensitive face was all

disfigured with excitehtful place?" she relad it has

never actually been discovered It is so quiet, so sweet, here Do you