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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER VIII
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Yes, he is hard; there is no mistake about that.

He 's inflexible, he 's brittle; and though he has plenty of spirit, plenty of soul, he has n't what I call a heart.

He has something that Miss Garland took for one, and I 'm pretty sure she 's a judge.

But she judged on scanty evidence.

He has something that Christina Light, here, makes believe at times that she takes for one, but she is no judge at all! I think it is established that, in the long run, egotism makes a failure in conduct: is it also true that it makes a failure in the arts ?...
Roderick's standard is immensely high; I must do him that justice.


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