The relation and necessitude is trifling and loose, and they are all equally contemptible; because the mind entertains no loves or union.

She was only codding. Or ‘acting the jinnet’ as his da called it. Man, dear, but your mother’s an awful woman for acting the jinnet,’ he’d say.

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