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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XXIII
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And his very voice was fine--the more strangely that, with its clearness, it yet somehow wasn't sweet.

This had had really to do with making her abstain from interference.

His utterance was the vibration of glass, and if she had put out her finger she might have changed the pitch and spoiled the concert.

Yet before he went she had to speak.
"Madame Merle," he said, "consents to come up to my hill-top some day next week and drink tea in my garden.

It would give me much pleasure if you would come with her.


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