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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER X
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Unfortunately, I have n't repose.

I am trembling now; if I could ask you to feel my arm, you would see! But I want to tell you that I admire Miss Garland more than any of the people who call themselves her friends--except of course you.

Oh, I know that! To begin with, she is extremely handsome, and she does n't know it." "She is not generally thought handsome," said Rowland.
"Evidently! That 's the vulgarity of the human mind.

Her head has great character, great natural style.

If a woman is not to be a supreme beauty in the regular way, she will choose, if she 's wise, to look like that.
She 'll not be thought pretty by people in general, and desecrated, as she passes, by the stare of every vile wretch who chooses to thrust his nose under her bonnet; but a certain number of superior people will find it one of the delightful things of life to look at her.


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