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The Golden Bowl

PART THIRD
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"Not a bit as a person to bore with complaints.

The ground of MY agitation is, exactly, that she never on any pretext bores him.

Not Charlotte!" And in the imagination of Mrs.Verver's superiority to any such mistake she gave, characteristically, something like a toss of her head--as marked a tribute to that lady's general grace, in all the conditions, as the personage referred to doubtless had ever received.
"Ah, only Maggie!" With which the Colonel gave a short low gurgle.

But it found his wife again prepared.
"No--not only Maggie.

A great many people in London--and small wonder!--bore him." "Maggie only worst then ?" But it was a question that he had promptly dropped at the returning brush of another, of which she had shortly before sown the seed.


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