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The Europeans

CHAPTER IV
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"She will want something more--more private." "If she wants to be private she can stay in her room," Lizzie Acton remarked.
Gertrude paused in her walk, looking at her.

"That would not be pleasant," she answered.

"She wants privacy and pleasure together." Robert Acton began to laugh again.

"My dear cousin, what a picture!" Charlotte had fixed her serious eyes upon her sister; she wondered whence she had suddenly derived these strange notions.

Mr.Wentworth also observed his younger daughter.
"I don't know what her manner of life may have been," he said; "but she certainly never can have enjoyed a more refined and salubrious home." Gertrude stood there looking at them all.


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