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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XVIII
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What sort of a cousin is a cousin that you had never seen for more than twenty years of her life?
We're all each other's cousins, and if we stopped at that the human race would die out.
It's just the same with your bad lung.

You're a great deal better than you used to be.

All you want is to lead a natural life.

It is a great deal more natural to marry a pretty young lady that you're in love with than it is to remain single on false principles." "I'm not in love with Isabel," said Ralph.
"You said just now that you would be if you didn't think it wrong.

I want to prove to you that it isn't wrong." "It will only tire you, dear daddy," said Ralph, who marvelled at his father's tenacity and at his finding strength to insist.


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