[Confidence by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookConfidence CHAPTER XVI 21/26
But it was not poor Mrs.Vivian's fault, it was some one's else. Have you ever seen the Vivians again? They are always in Europe; they have gone to live in Paris.
That evening when you came up and spoke to Gordon, I never thought that three years afterward I should be married to him, and I don't suppose you did either.
Is that what you meant by looking at me? Perhaps you can tell the future.
I wish you would tell my future!" "Oh, I can tell that easily," said Bernard. "What will happen to me ?" "Nothing particular; it will be a little dull--the perfect happiness of a charming woman married to the best fellow in the world." "Ah, what a horrid future!" cried Blanche, with a little petulant cry. "I want to be happy, but I certainly don't want to be dull.
If you say that again you will make me repent of having married the best fellow in the world.
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