mass or meeting he says your soul you have no soul inside only grey matter
because he doesnt know what it is to have one yes when I lit the lamp yes because
he must have come 3 or 4 times with that tremendous big red brute of a thing
he has I thought the vein or whatever the dickens they call it was going to
because he used to be a bit on the jealous side whenever he asked who are you
going to and I said over to Floey and he made me the present of lord Byrons
poems and the three pairs of gloves so that finished that I could quite easily
get him to make it up any time I know how Id even supposing he got in with
her again and was going out to see her somewhere Id know if he refused to eat the
onions I know plenty of ways ask him to tuck down the collar of my blouse or
touch him with my veil and gloves on going out 1 kiss then wouldsend them all
spinning however alright well see then let him go to her she of course would
only be too delighted to pretend shes mad in love with him that I wouldnt so much
mind Id just go to her and ask her do you love him and look her square in the
eyes she couldnt fool me but he might imagine he was and make a declaration
with his plabbery kind of a manner to her like he did to me though I had the devils
own job to get it out of him though I liked him for that it showed he could
hold in and wasnt to be got for the asking he was on the pop of asking me
too the night in the kitchen I was rolling the potato cake theres something
I want to say to you only for I put him off letting on I was in a temper with
my hands and arms full of pasty flour in any case I let out too much the
night before talking of dreams so I didnt want to let him know more than
was good for him she used to be always embracing me Josie whenever he
was there meaning him of course glauming me over and when I said I
washed up and down as far as possible asking me did you wash possible the
women are always egging on to that putting it on thick when hes there
they know by his sly eye blinking a bit putting on the indifferent when
they come out with something the kind he is what spoils him I dont
wonder in the least because he was very handsome at that time trying to look
like lord Byron I said I liked though he was too beautiful for a man and he was
a little before we got engaged afterwards though she didnt like it so much the
day I was in fits of laughing with the giggles I couldnt stop about all my hairpins
falling one after another with the mass of hair I had youre always in great
humour she said yes because it grigged her because she knew what it meant
because I used to tell her a good bit of what went on between us not all but just
enough to make her month water but that wasnt my fault she didnt darken
the door much after we were married I wonder what shes got like now
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