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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XX
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It takes much more ability to make other people buy than to buy yourself.

When I think how clever they must be, the people who make ME buy! Ah no; I couldn't be a shopkeeper.
I can't be a doctor; it's a repulsive business.

I can't be a clergyman; I haven't got convictions.

And then I can't pronounce the names right in the Bible.

They're very difficult, in the Old Testament particularly.


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