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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XIX
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I've nothing whatever against him and don't bear him the least little grudge for not doing me justice.

Justice is all I want.

However, one feels that he's a gentleman and would never say anything underhand about one.

Cartes sur table," Madame Merle subjoined in a moment, "I'm not afraid of him." "I hope not indeed," said Isabel, who added something about his being the kindest creature living.

She remembered, however, that on her first asking him about Madame Merle he had answered her in a manner which this lady might have thought injurious without being explicit.


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