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Alice Adams

CHAPTER XIX
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I'm responsible for what he expects: he expects just what the airs I've put on have made him expect.

What did I want to pose so to him for--as if papa were a wealthy man and all that?
What WILL he think?
The photograph of the Colosseum's a rather good thing, though.

It helps some--as if we'd bought it in Rome perhaps.

I hope he'll think so; he believes I've been abroad, of course.

The other night he said, 'You remember the feeling you get in the Sainte-Chapelle' .-- There's another lie of mine, not saying I didn't remember because I'd never been there.


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