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The Golden Bowl

PART FOURTH
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They've had to meet, secretly, protectedly, they've had to arrange; for if they haven't met, and haven't arranged, and haven't thereby, in some quarter or other, had to give themselves away, why are we piling it up so?
Therefore if there's evidence, up and down London--" "There must be people in possession of it?
Ah, it isn't all," she always remembered, "up and down London.

Some of it must connect them--I mean," she musingly added, "it naturally WOULD--with other places; with who knows what strange adventures, opportunities, dissimulations?
But whatever there may have been, it will also all have been buried on the spot.

Oh, they've known HOW--too beautifully! But nothing, all the same, is likely to find its way to Maggie of itself." "Because every one who may have anything to tell, you hold, will have been so squared ?" And then inveterately, before she could say--he enjoyed so much coming to this: "What will have squared Lady Castledean ?" "The consciousness"-- she had never lost her promptness--"of having no stones to throw at any one else's windows.

She has enough to do to guard her own glass.

That was what she was doing," Fanny said, "that last morning at Matcham when all of us went off and she kept the Prince and Charlotte over.


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