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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XX
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Her charm includes great cleverness." "She never dreamed, I'm sure, of my husband's doing anything for her; and I never dreamed of it either, for he never spoke to me of his intention," Mrs.Touchett said.

"She had no claim upon him whatever; it was no great recommendation to him that she was my niece.

Whatever she achieved she achieved unconsciously." "Ah," rejoined Madame Merle, "those are the greatest strokes!" Mrs.
Touchett reserved her opinion.

"The girl's fortunate; I don't deny that.
But for the present she's simply stupefied." "Do you mean that she doesn't know what to do with the money ?" "That, I think, she has hardly considered.

She doesn't know what to think about the matter at all.


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