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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XV
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I suppose you think a great deal of Byron in America," Mr.Bantling continued, expanding in the stimulating air of Miss Stackpole's attention, bringing up his sequences promptly and changing his topic with an easy turn of hand.
Yet he none the less gracefully kept in sight of the idea, dazzling to Henrietta, of her going to stay with Lady Pensil in Bedfordshire.

"I understand what you want; you want to see some genuine English sport.
The Touchetts aren't English at all, you know; they have their own habits, their own language, their own food--some odd religion even, I believe, of their own.

The old man thinks it's wicked to hunt, I'm told.
You must get down to my sister's in time for the theatricals, and I'm sure she'll be glad to give you a part.

I'm sure you act well; I know you're very clever.

My sister's forty years old and has seven children, but she's going to play the principal part.


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