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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XXXIX
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At any rate," he added, "there are things I'm curious to see." "You're sacrificing your health to your curiosity then ?" "I'm not much interested in my health, and I'm deeply interested in Mrs.
Osmond." "So am I.But not as I once was," Lord Warburton added quickly.

This was one of the allusions he had not hitherto found occasion to make.
"Does she strike you as very happy ?" Ralph enquired, emboldened by this confidence.
"Well, I don't know; I've hardly thought.

She told me the other night she was happy." "Ah, she told YOU, of course," Ralph exclaimed, smiling.
"I don't know that.

It seems to me I was rather the sort of person she might have complained to." "Complained?
She'll never complain.

She has done it--what she HAS done--and she knows it.


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