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The Ambassadors

BOOK Fifth
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Moses, on the ceiling, brought down to the floor; overwhelming, colossal, but somehow portable." "Certainly, if you mean by portable," she returned, "looking so well in one's carriage.

He's too funny beside me in his comer; he looks like somebody, somebody foreign and famous, en exil; so that people wonder--it's very amusing--whom I'm taking about.

I show him Paris, show him everything, and he never turns a hair.

He's like the Indian chief one reads about, who, when he comes up to Washington to see the Great Father, stands wrapt in his blanket and gives no sign.

I might be the Great Father--from the way he takes everything." She was delighted at this hit of her identity with that personage--it fitted so her character; she declared it was the title she meant henceforth to adopt.


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