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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER X
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There is n't a creature here that I can look to--not one of them all that I have faith in.

But I always admired you.

I said to Christina the first time I saw you that there at last was a real gentleman.

Come, don't disappoint me now! I feel so terribly alone, you see; I feel what a nasty, hard, heartless world it is that has come and devoured my dinners and danced to my fiddles, and yet that has n't a word to throw to me in my agony! Oh, the money, alone, that I have put into this thing, would melt the heart of a Turk!" During this frenzied outbreak Rowland had had time to look round the room, and to see the Cavaliere sitting in a corner, like a major-domo on the divan of an antechamber, pale, rigid, and inscrutable.
"I have it at heart to tell you," Rowland said, "that if you consider my friend Hudson"-- Mrs.Light gave a toss of her head and hands.

"Oh, it 's not that.


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