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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER V
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I noticed it the first time I saw you.
I think it 's because your face is so broad.

For some reason or other, broad faces exasperate me; they fill me with a kind of rabbia.

Last summer, at Carlsbad, there was an Austrian count, with enormous estates and some great office at court.

He was very attentive--seriously so; he was really very far gone.

Cela ne tenait qu' a moi! But I could n't; he was impossible! He must have measured, from ear to ear, at least a yard and a half.


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