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Chapter 9. Lewis, Sinclair. 1922. Babbitt |
 | | They had but two, one, or no children; and despite the myth that the Great War had made work respectable, their husbands objected to their wasting time and getting a lot of crank ideas in unpaid social work, and still more to their causing a rumor, by earning money, that they were not adequately supported. |
 | | They worked perhaps two hours a day, and the rest of the time they ate chocolates, went to the motion-pictures, went window-shopping, went in gossiping twos and threes to card-parties, read magazines, thought timorously of the lovers who never appeared, and accumulated a splendid restlessness which they got rid of by nagging their husbands. |
 | | Why dont you get Paul to go along, and you boys just fish and have a good time? She patted his shoulderreaching up to itwhile he shook with palsied helplessness, and in that moment was not merely by habit fond of her but clung to her strength. |
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