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The Ambassadors

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I want awfully to have worked it.

I want"-- and our friend spoke now with a yearning that was really earnest--"at least to have done THAT." "To have married me off--without a penny ?" "Well, I shan't live long; and I give you my word, now and here, that I'll leave you every penny of my own.

I haven't many, unfortunately, but you shall have them all.

And Miss Pocock, I think, has a few.

I want," Strether went on, "to have been at least to that extent constructive even expiatory.


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