[The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Portrait of a Lady CHAPTER XXXIII 3/18
He has a very good opinion of himself, but he was not a man to take trouble.
Madame Merle took the trouble for him." "He has taken a great deal for himself!" cried Isabel with a voluntary laugh. Mrs.Touchett gave a sharp nod.
"I think he must, after all, to have made you like him so much." "I thought he even pleased YOU." "He did, at one time; and that's why I'm angry with him." "Be angry with me, not with him," said the girl. "Oh, I'm always angry with you; that's no satisfaction! Was it for this that you refused Lord Warburton ?" "Please don't go back to that.
Why shouldn't I like Mr.Osmond, since others have done so ?" "Others, at their wildest moments, never wanted to marry him.
There's nothing OF him," Mrs.Touchett explained. "Then he can't hurt me," said Isabel. "Do you think you're going to be happy? No one's happy, in such doings, you should know." "I shall set the fashion then.
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