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The Ambassadors

BOOK Twelfth
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"Don't leave her BEFORE.

When you've got all that can be got--I don't say," he added a trifle grimly.

"That will be the proper time.

But as, for you, from such a woman, there will always be something to be got, my remark's not a wrong to her." Chad let him go on, showing every decent deference, showing perhaps also a candid curiosity for this sharper accent.

"I remember you, you know, as you were." "An awful ass, wasn't I ?" The response was as prompt as if he had pressed a spring; it had a ready abundance at which he even winced; so that he took a moment to meet it.


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