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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER VIII
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Mr.Leavenworth settled himself into his chair with an air of flattered proprietorship, and scanned the unfinished image.

"I can conscientiously express myself as gratified with the general conception," he said.

"The figure has considerable majesty, and the countenance wears a fine, open expression.
The forehead, however, strikes me as not sufficiently intellectual.

In a statue of Culture, you know, that should be the great point.

The eye should instinctively seek the forehead.


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