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"Uponout atword about wo for gratitude?"

Marlow raised a soothing hand

"There! There! I take back the ill-sounding word, with the reh, that cynicism seems to me a word invented by hypocrites But let

that pass As to women, they know that the cla which they cannot be is as reasonable as if

immortality

in this world, in which death is the very condition of life Youhere of material existence That

naturally is implied; but you won't maintain that a woman who, say,

enlisted, for instance (there have been cases) has conquered her place in

the world She has only got her living in it--which is quite

All these reflections which arise fro up the thread of Flora

de Barral's existence did not, I am certain, present the solitary week-end cruises in

the estuary of the Thames (withMr Powell, the chance second officer of the ship

Ferndale, commanded (and for the most part owned) by Roderick Anthony,

the son of the poet--you know A Mr Powell, much slenderer than our