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"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
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"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
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"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."
"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."
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"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
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