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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER V
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But let me entreat you, as an affectionate friend, to keep a watch on your emotions.

You are young, you are handsome, you have a brilliant genius and a generous heart, but--I may say it almost with authority--Christina is not for you!" Whether Roderick was in love or not, he was nettled by what apparently seemed to him an obtrusive negation of an inspiring possibility.

"You speak as if she had made her choice!" he cried.

"Without pretending to confidential information on the subject, I am sure she has not." "No, but she must make it soon," said the Cavaliere.

And raising his forefinger, he laid it against his under lip.


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