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The Golden Bowl

PART FIFTH
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"You're perfectly sure it's ALL my mistake ?" "All I can say is that you've received a false impression." "Ah then--so much the better! From the moment I HAD received it I knew I must sooner or later speak of it--for that, you see, is, systematically, my way.

And now," Charlotte added, "you make me glad I've spoken.

I thank you very much." It was strange how for Maggie too, with this, the difficulty seemed to sink.

Her companion's acceptance of her denial was like a general pledge not to keep things any worse for her than they essentially had to be; it positively helped her to build up her falsehood--to which, accordingly, she contributed another block.

"I've affected you evidently--quite accidentally--in some way of which I've been all unaware.


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