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The Golden Bowl

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How far would she go in HER notion of it.
"Well," his daughter returned, "you know how far, in a general way, Charlotte Stant goes." "Charlotte?
Is SHE coming ?" "She writes me, practically, that she'd like to if we're so good as to ask her." Mr.Verver continued to gaze, but rather as if waiting for more.

Then, as everything appeared to have come, his expression had a drop.

If this was all it was simple.

"Then why in the world not ?" Maggie's face lighted anew, but it was now another light.

"It isn't a want of tact ?" "To ask her ?" "To propose it to you." "That _I_ should ask her ?" He put the question as an effect of his remnant of vagueness, but this had also its own effect.


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