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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XVIII
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It seems to me immoral." "Immoral, dear daddy ?" "Well, I don't know that it's right to make everything so easy for a person." "It surely depends upon the person.

When the person's good, your making things easy is all to the credit of virtue.

To facilitate the execution of good impulses, what can be a nobler act ?" This was a little difficult to follow, and Mr.Touchett considered it for a while.

At last he said: "Isabel's a sweet young thing; but do you think she's so good as that ?" "She's as good as her best opportunities," Ralph returned.
"Well," Mr.Touchett declared, "she ought to get a great many opportunities for sixty thousand pounds." "I've no doubt she will." "Of course I'll do what you want," said the old man.

"I only want to understand it a little." "Well, dear daddy, don't you understand it now ?" his son caressingly asked.


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