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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XIII
16/35

Of course I'm easy game--I was brought up with such different customs and ideas.
I'm not used to your arbitrary standards, and I've never been spoken to in America as you have spoken to me.

If a gentleman conversing with me over there were to speak to me like that I shouldn't know what to make of it.

We take everything more naturally over there, and, after all, we're a great deal more simple.

I admit that; I'm very simple myself.
Of course if you choose to laugh at me for it you're very welcome; but I think on the whole I would rather be myself than you.

I'm quite content to be myself; I don't want to change.


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