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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER VII
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You said also that you wished to say three sharp words to the Buonvicini about your pink dress.
You want some moss-rosebuds for to-night, and you won't get them for nothing! You dine at the Austrian Embassy, and that Frenchman is to powder your hair.

You 're to come home in time to receive, for the signora gives a dance.

And so away, away till morning!" "Ah, yes, the moss-roses!" Christina murmured, caressingly.

"I must have a quantity--at least a hundred.

Nothing but buds, eh?
You must sew them in a kind of immense apron, down the front of my dress.


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