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Barchester Towers

CHAPTER XV
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Then also he remembered that Mrs.Bold had a son.
Another circumstance also much influenced him, though it was one which may almost be said to have influenced him against his will.
The vision of the Signora Neroni was perpetually before his eyes.
It would be too much to say that Mr.Slope was lost in love, but yet he thought, and kept continually thinking, that he had never seen so beautiful a woman.

He was a man whose nature was open to such impulses, and the wiles of the Italianized charmer had been thoroughly successful in imposing upon his thoughts.

We will not talk about his heart: not that he had no heart, but because his heart had little to do with his present feelings.

His taste had been pleased, his eyes charmed, and his vanity gratified.

He had been dazzled by a sort of loveliness which he had never before seen, and had been caught by an easy, free, voluptuous manner which was perfectly new to him.


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