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The Ambassadors

BOOK Twelfth
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The impression she makes.

She has such variety and yet such harmony." She considered him with one of her deep returns of indulgence--returns out of all proportion to the irritations they flooded over.

"You're complete." "You're always too personal," he good-humouredly said; "but that's precisely how I wondered and wandered." "If you mean," she went on, "that she was from the first for you the most charming woman in the world, nothing's more simple.

Only that was an odd foundation." "For what I reared on it ?" "For what you didn't!" "Well, it was all not a fixed quantity.

And it had for me--it has still--such elements of strangeness.


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