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But things change, with time, and I seem to know that, after this interval, I'm going to like her better than ever.
I've lived more myself, I'm older, and one judges better.
Yes, I'm going to see in Charlotte," said the Princess--and speaking now as with high and free expectation--"more than I've ever seen." "Then I'll try to do so too.
She WAS"-- it came back to Mr.Verver more--"the one of your friends I thought the best for you." His companion, however, was so launched in her permitted liberty of appreciation that she for the moment scarce heard him.
She was lost in the case she made out, the vision of the different ways in which Charlotte had distinguished herself. "She would have liked for instance--I'm sure she would have liked extremely--to marry; and nothing in general is more ridiculous, even when it has been pathetic, than a woman who has tried and has not been able." It had all Mr.Verver's attention.
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