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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XXII
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I like her immensely, and I do what I don't do every day--I admire her.

You'll do the same." "Not if I can help it." "Precisely.

But you won't be able to help it." "Is she beautiful, clever, rich, splendid, universally intelligent and unprecedentedly virtuous?
It's only on those conditions that I care to make her acquaintance.

You know I asked you some time ago never to speak to me of a creature who shouldn't correspond to that description.

I know plenty of dingy people; I don't want to know any more." "Miss Archer isn't dingy; she's as bright as the morning.


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