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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XIII
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There are plenty of people that appreciate me just as I am.

It's true they're nice fresh free-born Americans!" Henrietta had lately taken up the tone of helpless innocence and large concession.

"I want you to assist me a little," she went on.
"I don't care in the least whether I amuse you while you do so; or, rather, I'm perfectly willing your amusement should be your reward.

I want you to help me about Isabel." "Has she injured you ?" Ralph asked.
"If she had I shouldn't mind, and I should never tell you.

What I'm afraid of is that she'll injure herself." "I think that's very possible," said Ralph.
His companion stopped in the garden-walk, fixing on him perhaps the very gaze that unnerved him.


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