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Childe Harold
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I suppose you were much surprised, John, to find Katharine still Mrs. Winthrop?
human
No, not much.
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But she told me that she had mentioned to you her engagement.
human
Yes, she mentioned it.
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You speak as though she was one of the women who make and break engagements lightly. But she is not, I assure you: far from it.
human
She broke this one, it seems.
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One breaking does not make a--breaker, said Sylvia, thinking vaguely of
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and nearly saying
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She paused, then shook her head sadly.
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I have never understood it, she said, with a deep sigh.
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It lasted, I know, until the very end of June. I think I may say, without exaggeration, that I spent the entire month of July, day and night, picturing to myself his sufferings.
human
You took more time than he did. He was married before July was ended.
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Simply despair.
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Despair took on a cheerful guise. Some of the rest of us might not object to it in such a shape.
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So terrible for such a man! A mere child--only seventeen!
human
And he is--
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Thirty-seven years, eight months, and nine days, answered the lady, in the tone of an obituary.
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Twenty years younger than he is! Of course, she cannot in the least appreciate the true depth of his poetry.
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He may not care for that, you know, if she appreciates him,