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The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.


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It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.



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You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.



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He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.



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It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.



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He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.




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It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.



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