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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER X
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She had no interested views, and never supposed you would think she had." "One must be very modest then to talk with such women," Ralph said humbly.

"But it's a very strange type.

She's too personal--considering that she expects other people not to be.

She walks in without knocking at the door." "Yes," Isabel admitted, "she doesn't sufficiently recognise the existence of knockers; and indeed I'm not sure that she doesn't think them rather a pretentious ornament.

She thinks one's door should stand ajar.


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