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The Golden Bowl

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What does that show, after all," she asked, "but that you do really, well within, feel a want?
What does it show but that you're truly susceptible ?" "Well, it may show that"-- he defended himself against nothing.

"But it shows also, I think, that charming women are, in the kind of life we're leading now, numerous and formidable." Maggie entertained for a moment the proposition; under cover of which, however, she passed quickly from the general to the particular.

"Do you feel Mrs.Rance to be charming ?" "Well, I feel her to be formidable.

When they cast a spell it comes to the same thing.

I think she'd do anything." "Oh well, I'd help you," the Princess said with decision, "as against HER--if that's all you require.


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