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Sister Carrie

CHAPTER I
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Her maidenly reserve, and a certain sense of what was conventional under the circumstances, called her to forestall and deny this familiarity, but the daring and magnetism of the individual, born of past experiences and triumphs, prevailed.

She answered.
He leaned forward to put his elbows upon the back of her seat and proceeded to make himself volubly agreeable.
"Yes, that is a great resort for Chicago people.

The hotels are swell.
You are not familiar with this part of the country, are you ?" "Oh, yes, I am," answered Carrie.

"That is, I live at Columbia City.

I have never been through here, though." "And so this is your first visit to Chicago," he observed.
All the time she was conscious of certain features out of the side of her eye.


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