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How, so looking, can she pass unnoticed? How can she not have 'success'? Besides," he added as she but watched his face, letting him say what he would, as if she wanted to see how he would say it, "besides, there IS always the fact that we're of the same connection, of--what is your word ?--the same 'concern.' We're certainly not, with the relation of our respective sposi, simply formal acquaintances.
We're in the same boat"-- and the Prince smiled with a candour that added an accent to his emphasis. Fanny Assingham was full of the special sense of his manner: it caused her to turn for a moment's refuge to a corner of her general consciousness in which she could say to herself that she was glad SHE wasn't in love with such a man.
As with Charlotte just before, she was embarrassed by the difference between what she took in and what she could say, what she felt and what she could show.
"It only appears to me of great importance that--now that you all seem more settled here--Charlotte should be known, for any presentation, any further circulation or introduction, as, in particular, her husband's wife; known in the least possible degree as anything else.
I don't know what you mean by the 'same' boat.
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