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The American

CHAPTER VIII
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Don't try to be any one else; be simply yourself, out and out.

Something or other can't fail to come of it; I am very curious to see what." "I am much obliged to you for your advice," said Newman.

"And," he added with a smile, "I am glad, for your sake, I am going to be so amusing." "It will be more than amusing," said Bellegarde; "it will be inspiring.
I look at it from my point of view, and you from yours.

After all, anything for a change! And only yesterday I was yawning so as to dislocate my jaw, and declaring that there was nothing new under the sun! If it isn't new to see you come into the family as a suitor, I am very much mistaken.

Let me say that, my dear fellow; I won't call it anything else, bad or good; I will simply call it NEW" And overcome with a sense of the novelty thus foreshadowed, Valentin de Bellegarde threw himself into a deep arm-chair before the fire, and, with a fixed, intense smile, seemed to read a vision of it in the flame of the logs.
After a while he looked up.


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