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The Ambassadors

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This was her great time, she intimated, for pulling herself together.

The delays caused by the weather, the struggle for vehicles at the door, gave them occasion to subside on a divan at the back of the vestibule and just beyond the reach of the fresh damp gusts from the street.

Here Strether's comrade resumed that free handling of the subject to which his own imagination of it already owed so much.

"Does your young friend in Paris like you ?" It had almost, after the interval, startled him.

"Oh I hope not! Why SHOULD he ?" "Why shouldn't he ?" Miss Gostrey asked.


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