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The Ambassadors

BOOK Twelfth
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That's it--that's it.

You see how, as I say, I want everything.

I've wanted you too." "Ah but you've HAD me!" he declared, at the door, with an emphasis that made an end.
III His purpose had been to see Chad the next day, and he had prefigured seeing him by an early call; having in general never stood on ceremony in respect to visits at the Boulevard Malesherbes.

It had been more often natural for him to go there than for Chad to come to the small hotel, the attractions of which were scant; yet it nevertheless, just now, at the eleventh hour, did suggest itself to Strether to begin by giving the young man a chance.

It struck him that, in the inevitable course, Chad would be "round," as Waymarsh used to say--Waymarsh who already, somehow, seemed long ago.


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