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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER IV
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You know you've always thought Isabel rather foreign." "You want her to give her a little foreign sympathy, eh?
Don't you think she gets enough at home ?" "Well, she ought to go abroad," said Mrs.Ludlow.

"She's just the person to go abroad." "And you want the old lady to take her, is that it ?" "She has offered to take her--she's dying to have Isabel go.

But what I want her to do when she gets her there is to give her all the advantages.

I'm sure all we've got to do," said Mrs.Ludlow, "is to give her a chance." "A chance for what ?" "A chance to develop." "Oh Moses!" Edmund Ludlow exclaimed.

"I hope she isn't going to develop any more!" "If I were not sure you only said that for argument I should feel very badly," his wife replied.


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