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The Golden Bowl

PART THIRD
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"It was by seeing them together." "Seeing her with her father ?" He fell behind again.

"But you've seen her often enough before." "Never with my present eyes.

For nothing like such a test--that of this length of the others' absence together--has hitherto occurred." "Possibly! But if she and Mr.Verver insisted upon it-- ?" "Why is it such a test?
Because it has become one without their intending it.

It has spoiled, so to speak, on their hands." "It has soured, eh ?" the Colonel said.
"The word's horrible--say rather it has 'changed.' Perhaps," Fanny went on, "she did wish to see how much she can bear.

In that case she HAS seen.


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