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The Ambassadors

BOOK Eleventh
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But Mr.Newsome has much more to forget.

How can HE do it ?" "Ah there again we are! That's just what I was to have made him do; just where I was to have worked with him and helped." She took it in silence and without attenuation--as if perhaps from very familiarity with the facts; and her thought made a connexion without showing the links.

"Do you remember how we used to talk at Chester and in London about my seeing you through ?" She spoke as of far-off things and as if they had spent weeks at the places she named.
"It's just what you ARE doing." "Ah but the worst--since you've left such a margin--may be still to come.

You may yet break down." "Yes, I may yet break down.

But will you take me-- ?" He had hesitated, and she waited.


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