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Phineas Finn

CHAPTER VIII
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We are to hear Daubeny's statement at four, and I would not miss it for worlds." "I wonder whether you would go abroad with my brother in the autumn?
But I have no right to think of such a thing;--have I?
At any rate I will not think of it yet.

Good-bye,--I shall see you perhaps on Sunday if you are in town." Phineas walked down to Westminster with his mind very full of Lady Laura and Lord Chiltern.

What did she mean by her affectionate manner to himself, and what did she mean by the continual praises which she lavished upon Mr.Kennedy?
Of whom was she thinking most, of Mr.Kennedy, or of him?
She had called herself his mentor.

Was the description of her feelings towards himself, as conveyed in that name, of a kind to be gratifying to him?
No;--he thought not.

But then might it not be within his power to change the nature of those feelings?
She was not in love with him at present.


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