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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XIII
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"You needn't pretend you don't." "I like him extremely; I'm very free to admit that.

But I don't wish to marry any one just now." "You think some one may come along whom you may like better.

Well, that's very likely," said Mr.Touchett, who appeared to wish to show his kindness to the girl by easing off her decision, as it were, and finding cheerful reasons for it.
"I don't care if I don't meet any one else.

I like Lord Warburton quite well enough." she fell into that appearance of a sudden change of point of view with which she sometimes startled and even displeased her interlocutors.
Her uncle, however, seemed proof against either of these impressions.
"He's a very fine man," he resumed in a tone which might have passed for that of encouragement.

"His letter was one of the pleasantest I've received for some weeks.


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