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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER IV
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Miss Light, if I am not mistaken, is one of the unsafe.

A word to the wise!" "Much obliged!" said Roderick, and he began to whistle a triumphant air, in honor, apparently, of the advent of his beautiful model.
In calling this young lady and her mamma "queer people," Rowland but roughly expressed his sentiment.

They were so marked a variation from the monotonous troop of his fellow-country people that he felt much curiosity as to the sources of the change, especially since he doubted greatly whether, on the whole, it elevated the type.

For a week he saw the two ladies driving daily in a well-appointed landau, with the Cavaliere and the poodle in the front seat.

From Mrs.Light he received a gracious salute, tempered by her native majesty; but the young girl, looking straight before her, seemed profoundly indifferent to observers.
Her extraordinary beauty, however, had already made observers numerous and given the habitues of the Pincian plenty to talk about.


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