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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XI
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"But I don't believe that; he's not a man to do nothing.

He is a man of high, bold action.

Whatever happens to him he'll always do something, and whatever he does will always be right." "I quite believe that." Henrietta might be wanting in delicacy, but it touched the girl, all the same, to hear this declaration.
"Ah, you do care for him!" her visitor rang out.
"Whatever he does will always be right," Isabel repeated.

"When a man's of that infallible mould what does it matter to him what one feels ?" "It may not matter to him, but it matters to one's self." "Ah, what it matters to me--that's not what we're discussing," said Isabel with a cold smile.
This time her companion was grave.

"Well, I don't care; you have changed.


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