Or rather indeed"-- she quickly corrected herself--"it has everything.

For she doesn't care.

I never saw her do anything but laugh at her poverty.

Her life has been harder than anyone knows." It was moreover as if, thus unprecedentedly positive, his child had an effect upon him that Mr.Verver really felt as a new thing.

"Why then haven't you told me about her before ?" "Well, haven't we always known-- ?" "I should have thought," he submitted, "that we had already pretty well sized her up." "Certainly--we long ago quite took her for granted.