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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XIX
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You're young and fresh and of to-day; you've the great thing--you've actuality.

I once had it--we all have it for an hour.

You, however, will have it for longer.

Let us talk about you then; you can say nothing I shall not care to hear.

It's a sign that I'm growing old--that I like to talk with younger people.


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