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The Ambassadors

BOOK Second
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This young man furthermore would have been much more easy to handle--at least for HIM--than appeared probable in respect to Chad.
It came up for him with Miss Gostrey that there were things of which she would really perhaps after all have heard, and she admitted when a little pressed that she was never quite sure of what she heard as distinguished from things such as, on occasions like the present, she only extravagantly guessed.

"I seem with this freedom, you see, to have guessed Mr.Chad.

He's a young man on whose head high hopes are placed at Woollett; a young man a wicked woman has got hold of and whom his family over there have sent you out to rescue.

You've accepted the mission of separating him from the wicked woman.

Are you quite sure she's very bad for him ?" Something in his manner showed it as quite pulling him up.


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