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The Portrait of a Lady

CHAPTER XXXVI
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"Ah, about her there's much to be said.

Splendid as you like! We've not exactly made out that you're a parti.

The absence of vices is hardly a source of income.
"Pardon me, I think it may be," said Rosier quite lucidly.
"You'll be a touching couple, living on your innocence!" "I think you underrate me." "You're not so innocent as that?
Seriously," said Madame Merle, "of course forty thousand francs a year and a nice character are a combination to be considered.

I don't say it's to be jumped at, but there might be a worse offer.

Mr.Osmond, however, will probably incline to believe he can do better." "HE can do so perhaps; but what can his daughter do?
She can't do better than marry the man she loves.


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