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The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
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I do at least seem to catch the key to a part of this abundance of small anxious, ingenious illustration as I recollect putting my finger, in my young woman's interest, on the most obvious of her predicates.†
Chpt Pref.
She had often heard that the English are a highly eccentric people, and she had even read in some ingenious author that they are at bottom the most romantic of races.†
Chpt 9 *
Of course I believe it," Miss Stackpole ingeniously said.†
Chpt 13
"That's ingenious rather than candid," said Ralph.†
Chpt 15
It had long been Mr. Touchett's most ingenious way of taking the cheerful view of his son's possible duration.†
Chpt 18
These things kept terms with articles of modern furniture in which large allowance had been made for a lounging generation; it was to be noticed that all the chairs were deep and well padded and that much space was occupied by a writing-table of which the ingenious perfection bore the stamp of London and the nineteenth century.†
Chpt 22
His mother thought he got on beautifully with their genial guest; to Mrs. Touchett's sense two persons who dealt so largely in too-ingenious theories of conduct—that is of their own—would have much in common.†
Chpt 23
Out of doors in foreign lands, as she ingeniously remarked, one seemed to see the right side of the tapestry; out of doors in England one seemed to see the wrong side, which gave one no notion of the figure.†
Chpt 26

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