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The American

CHAPTER III
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I should care immensely, but I shouldn't believe you.

The fact is I have never had time to feel things.

I have had to DO them, to make myself felt." "I can imagine that you may have done that tremendously, sometimes." "Yes, there's no mistake about that." "When you are in a fury it can't be pleasant." "I am never in a fury." "Angry, then, or displeased." "I am never angry, and it is so long since I have been displeased that I have quite forgotten it." "I don't believe," said Mrs.Tristram, "that you are never angry.

A man ought to be angry sometimes, and you are neither good enough nor bad enough always to keep your temper." "I lose it perhaps once in five years." "The time is coming round, then," said his hostess.

"Before I have known you six months I shall see you in a fine fury." "Do you mean to put me into one ?" "I should not be sorry.


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