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means; and in Paris, as in any other city in the world, life would be
just as costly and impossible as in London.
Well might Denton cry aloud: "If only we had lived in those days,
dearest! If only we had lived in the past!" For to their eyes even
nineteenth-century Whitechapel was seen through a mist of romance.
"Is there nothing?" cried Elizabeth, suddenly weeping. "Must we really
wait for those three long years? Fancy three years--six-and-thirty
months!" The human capacity for patience had not grown with the ages.
Then suddenly Denton was moved to speak of something that had already
flickered across his mind. He had hit upon it at last. It seemed to him
so wild a suggestion that he made it only half seriously. But to put a
thing into words has ever a way of making it seem more real and possible
than it seemed before. And so it was with him.
"Suppose," he said, "we went into the country?"
She looked at him to see if he was serious in proposing such an
adventure.
"
"
The country?"
Yes--beyond there. Beyond the hills."
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