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PART 21: He is Urged to Desert his Galley

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She had been a widow even when I first encountered her in Liége. I may have passed her dozens of times, only she was in mourning then, for Barry-Smith, and so I never really saw her.
It seems, though, that "in the second year" it is permissible to wear pink garments in the privacy of your own apartments, and that if people see you in them, accidentally, it is simply their own fault.