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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER V
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"She 's a delightfully strange girl!" he cried.

"She must do everything that comes into her head!" "Had she never asked you before not to talk to her so much ?" "On the contrary, she has often said to me, 'Mind you now, I forbid you to leave me.

Here comes that tiresome So-and-so.' She cares as little about the custom as I do.

What could be a better proof than her walking up to you, with five hundred people looking at her?
Is that the custom for young girls in Rome ?" "Why, then, should she take such a step ?" "Because, as she sat there, it came into her head.

That 's reason enough for her.


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