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The Europeans

CHAPTER VIII
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"Those things ought to be known." "I don't care whether it is known or not," Clifford rejoined.

"But I don't want people looking at me." "A young man of your importance ought to learn to bear observation--to carry himself as if he were quite indifferent to it.

I won't say, exactly, unconscious," the Baroness explained.

"No, he must seem to know he is observed, and to think it natural he should be; but he must appear perfectly used to it.

Now you have n't that, Clifford; you have n't that at all.


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