Many Marriages"There was a man named Webster. So begins this story of a man who believed the human body to be the house of life within which is a deep well full of dark and hidden things held down by a heavy iron lid that must be torn open. This Webster, a respectable manufacturer of washing machines in a Middle Western industrial town, on the threshold of middle-age, suddenly makes an about-face upon his entire life, makes love to his secretary and goes away with her, leaving behind him his business, his wife and his young daughter."--Jacket |
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... thought vaguely and when his mind had formed the thought something seemed to have happened within himself . A few moments be- fore , as he stood in the presence of Natalie Swartz down in the office , he had thought of her 14.
... thought vaguely and when his mind had formed the thought something seemed to have happened within himself . A few moments be- fore , as he stood in the presence of Natalie Swartz down in the office , he had thought of her 14.
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... presence there . Everything was going all right . Natalie would attend to anything that came up . " A fine business if I , a respectable business man with a wife and a grown daughter , get myself in- volved in an affair with Natalie ...
... presence there . Everything was going all right . Natalie would attend to anything that came up . " A fine business if I , a respectable business man with a wife and a grown daughter , get myself in- volved in an affair with Natalie ...
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... the stairs , thinking perhaps he had better go off on such an adventure again . If he stayed at home and sat all day and every day in the presence of Natalie Swartz there was no telling what would happen . One might as 29.
... the stairs , thinking perhaps he had better go off on such an adventure again . If he stayed at home and sat all day and every day in the presence of Natalie Swartz there was no telling what would happen . One might as 29.
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... presence , stopped by the door leading into the kitchen and stood looking at him . He had never known that she had been aware of the struggle he had gone through for her many years before . Had he not made that strug- gle she would not ...
... presence , stopped by the door leading into the kitchen and stood looking at him . He had never known that she had been aware of the struggle he had gone through for her many years before . Had he not made that strug- gle she would not ...
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... presence of a man . It was an interesting thought , just to suppose , as a kind of playful diversion let us say , that she , that Natalie , was pure and clean . In that case she wouldn't be thinking much of her- self . She loved , that ...
... presence of a man . It was an interesting thought , just to suppose , as a kind of playful diversion let us say , that she , that Natalie , was pure and clean . In that case she wouldn't be thinking much of her- self . She loved , that ...
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