Two Strangers

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Excerpt: And who is this young widow of yours whom I hear so much about? I understand Lucys rapture over any stranger; but you, too, mother I toowell, there is no particular witchcraft about it; a nice young woman has as much chance with me as with any one, Ralph Oh, if its only a nice young woman Its a great deal more, said Lucy. Why, Miss Jones at the school is a nice young womandont you be taken in by mothers old-fashioned stilts. She is a darlingshe is as nice as nice can be. Shes pretty, and shes good, and shes clever. She has read a lot, and seen a lot, and been everywhere, and knows heaps and heaps of people, and yet just as simple and as nice as if she had{8} never been married, never had a baby, and was just a girl like the rest of usMother! there is nothing wrong in what I said? Lucy suddenly cried, stopping short and blushing all over with the innocent alarm of a youthfulness which had not been trained to modern modes of speech.

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