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The Ambassadors

BOOK Twelfth
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"She thinks just the contrary of what you say.

That you distinctly judge her." He turned over the scene as the two women thus placed together for him seemed to give it.

"She might have known--!" "Might have known you don't ?" Miss Gostrey asked as he let it drop.
"She was sure of it at first," she pursued as he said nothing; "she took it for granted, at least, as any woman in her position would.

But after that she changed her mind; she believed you believed--" "Well ?"--he was curious.
"Why in her sublimity.

And that belief had remained with her, I make out, till the accident of the other day opened your eyes.


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