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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XXX
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You don't say it in English?
I hope it isn't wrong; I only mean they wished to keep the money to marry her.

I don't know whether it is for that that papa wishes to keep the money--to marry me.

It costs so much to marry!" Pansy went on with a sigh; "I think papa might make that economy.

At any rate I'm too young to think about it yet, and I don't care for any gentleman; I mean for any but him.

If he were not my papa I should like to marry him; I would rather be his daughter than the wife of--of some strange person.


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