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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER IX
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"You need n't be afraid to tell the truth.

What strikes some people is that it is so remarkably small." "Oh, it's large enough; it's very wonderful.

There are things in Rome, then," she added in a moment, turning and looking at him, "that are very, very beautiful ?" "Lots of them." "Some of the most beautiful things in the world ?" "Unquestionably." "What are they?
which things have most beauty ?" "That is according to taste.

I should say the statues." "How long will it take to see them all?
to know, at least, something about them ?" "You can see them all, as far as mere seeing goes, in a fortnight.

But to know them is a thing for one's leisure.


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