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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER IX
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"It's the first position in this part of the county." "I dare say you think me very irreverent," Isabel took occasion to remark.

"I suppose you revere your brother and are rather afraid of him." "Of course one looks up to one's brother," said Miss Molyneux simply.
"If you do that he must be very good--because you, evidently, are beautifully good." "He's most kind.

It will never be known, the good he does." "His ability is known," Mildred added; "every one thinks it's immense." "Oh, I can see that," said Isabel.

"But if I were he I should wish to fight to the death: I mean for the heritage of the past.

I should hold it tight." "I think one ought to be liberal," Mildred argued gently.


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