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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XV
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There are other things a woman can do." "There's nothing she can do so well.

But you're of course so many-sided." "If one's two-sided it's enough," said Isabel.
"You're the most charming of polygons!" her companion broke out.

At a glance from his companion, however, he became grave, and to prove it went on: "You want to see life--you'll be hanged if you don't, as the young men say." "I don't think I want to see it as the young men want to see it.

But I do want to look about me." "You want to drain the cup of experience." "No, I don't wish to touch the cup of experience.

It's a poisoned drink! I only want to see for myself." "You want to see, but not to feel," Ralph remarked.
"I don't think that if one's a sentient being one can make the distinction.


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