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A Desirable Woman
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The Hudson Review
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Hudson Review Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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for Tanya and David Charlton
She was not beautiful according to the standards of the magazines and moving pictures of the time, and she knew it. But by any standard she was a desirable woman, and she also knew that. She knew it from what she had seen in the eyes of certain men, to which from time to time she had felt something like an echo in herself.
That she was desirable was acceptable to her as a part of the liveliness and also the goodness of the world. It was a gift. But that she was desirable and knew it and accepted it unfitted her somewhat for her role as a minister's wife. It was not expected. She had not expected it herself until her own wits told her it was so. Part of her ...
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