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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XXXVII
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"He's a gentleman, he has a charming temper; and, after all, an income of forty thousand francs!" "It's misery--'genteel' misery," Osmond broke in.

"It's not what I've dreamed of for Pansy." "Very good then.

He has promised me not to speak to her." "Do you believe him ?" Osmond asked absentmindedly.
"Perfectly.

Pansy has thought a great deal about him; but I don't suppose you consider that that matters." "I don't consider it matters at all; but neither do I believe she has thought of him." "That opinion's more convenient," said Madame Merle quietly.
"Has she told you she's in love with him ?" "For what do you take her?
And for what do you take me ?" Madame Merle added in a moment.
Osmond had raised his foot and was resting his slim ankle on the other knee; he clasped his ankle in his hand familiarly--his long, fine forefinger and thumb could make a ring for it--and gazed a while before him.

"This kind of thing doesn't find me unprepared.


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