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The Ambassadors

BOOK Ninth
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But I doubt if the idea--as an idea--has ever up to now answered so well for holding out.

That's HER tribute to the ideal--we each have our own.

It's her romance--and it seems to me better on the whole than mine.

To have it in Paris too," he explained--"on this classic ground, in this charged infectious air, with so sudden an intensity: well, it's more than she expected.

She has had in short to recognise the breaking out for her of a real affinity--and with everything to enhance the drama." Miss Gostrey followed.


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