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The Golden Bowl

PART FOURTH
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Against what we've already so fully talked of--its having to be recognised between them that he doubts.
That's where my part is so plain--to see her through, to see her through to the end." Exaltation, for the moment, always lighted Mrs.Assingham's reference to this plainness; yet she at the same time seldom failed, the next instant, to qualify her view of it.

"When I talk of my obligation as clear I mean that it's absolute; for just HOW, from day to day and through thick and thin, to keep the thing up is, I grant you, another matter.

There's one way, luckily, nevertheless, in which I'm strong.

I can perfectly count on her." The Colonel seldom failed here, as from the insidious growth of an excitement, to wonder, to encourage.

"Not to see you're lying ?" "To stick to me fast, whatever she sees.


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