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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER VII
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I have had a horrible education.

There must be some good in me, since I have perceived it, since I have turned and judged my circumstances." "My dear Miss Light!" Rowland murmured.
She gave a little, quick laugh.

"You don't want to hear?
you don't want to have to think about that ?" "Have I a right to?
You need n't justify yourself." She turned upon him a moment the quickened light of her beautiful eyes, then fell to musing again.

"Is there not some novel or some play," she asked at last, "in which some beautiful, wicked woman who has ensnared a young man sees his father come to her and beg her to let him go ?" "Very likely," said Rowland.

"I hope she consents." "I forget.


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