[In the Cage by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookIn the Cage CHAPTER VIII 2/6
"Their vices? Have they got vices ?" Our young critic even more overtly stared then with a touch of contempt in her amusement: "Haven't you found _that_ out ?" The homes of luxury then hadn't so much to give.
"_I_ find out everything." Mrs.Jordan, at bottom a very meek person, was visibly struck.
"I see. You do 'have' them." "Oh I don't care! Much good it does me!" Mrs.Jordan after an instant recovered her superiority.
"No--it doesn't lead to much." Her own initiations so clearly did.
Still--after all; and she was not jealous: "There must be a charm." "In seeing them ?" At this the girl suddenly let herself go.
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