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The Ambassadors

BOOK Fourth
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"Yes," he said brightly, "it was on the happy settlement of the question that I started.

You see therefore to what tune I'm in your family.

Moreover," he added, "I've been supposing you'd suppose it." "Oh I've been supposing it for a long time, and what you tell me helps me to understand that you should want to do something.

To do something, I mean," said Chad, "to commemorate an event so--what do they call it ?--so auspicious.

I see you make out, and not unnaturally," he continued, "that bringing me home in triumph as a sort of wedding-present to Mother would commemorate it better than anything else.


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