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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER VIII
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Now over here I don't think it quite comes home to them.

It's a matter of every day and every hour, and I don't think many of them would find it as pleasant as what they've got.

Of course if they want to try, it's their own business; but I expect they won't try very hard." "Don't you think they're sincere ?" Isabel asked.
"Well, they want to FEEL earnest," Mr.Touchett allowed; "but it seems as if they took it out in theories mostly.

Their radical views are a kind of amusement; they've got to have some amusement, and they might have coarser tastes than that.

You see they're very luxurious, and these progressive ideas are about their biggest luxury.


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