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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER IX
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Therefore I warn you." "I am not frightened.

I should like vastly to say something to you: Be what you are, be what you choose; but do, sometimes, as I tell you." If Rowland was not frightened, neither, perhaps, was Miss Garland; but she seemed at least slightly disturbed.

She proposed that they should join their companions.
Mrs.Hudson spoke under her breath; she could not be accused of the want of reverence sometimes attributed to Protestants in the great Catholic temples.

"Mary, dear," she whispered, "suppose we had to kiss that dreadful brass toe.

If I could only have kept our door-knocker, at Northampton, as bright as that! I think it's so heathenish; but Roderick says he thinks it 's sublime." Roderick had evidently grown a trifle perverse.


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