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THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY VOLUME I By Henry James PREFACE "The Portrait of a Lady" was, like "Roderick Hudson," begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879.†
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Florence = city in central Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance
She did what she could to erect it into a law—a much more edifying aspect of it—by going to live in Florence, where she bought a house and established herself; and by leaving her husband to take care of the English branch of his bank.†
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"In Florence we should call it a very bad house," said Mrs. Touchett; "but here, I dare say, it will bring a high price.†
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You should go to Florence if you like houses in which things have happened—especially deaths.†
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But the emotion was of a kind which led her to say: "I should like very much to go to Florence."†
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"And yet, to go to Florence," the girl exclaimed in a moment, "I'd promise almost anything!"†
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I shall invite her to spend the autumn with me in Florence.†
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Of course, as I've no daughters, and as Mrs. Touchett resides in Florence, I haven't had much chance to notice about the young ladies.†
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They're very bad in America, but I've five perfect ones in Florence.†
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"Your uncle's not an English nobleman," said Mrs. Touchett, "though even if he had been I should still probably have taken up my residence in Florence."†
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I go abroad with my aunt—to Florence and other places.†
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I've lived much in Florence.†
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She talked of Florence, where Mr. Osmond lived and where Mrs. Touchett occupied a medieval palace; she talked of Rome, where she herself had a little pied-a-terre with some rather good old damask.†
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"He has left me this house," the newly-made widow said; "but of course I shall not live in it; I've a much better one in Florence.†
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It was not to the credit of her absolute rectitude that she should have gone the longest way round to Florence in order to spend a few weeks with her invalid son; since in former years it had been one of her most definite convictions that when Ralph wished to see her he was at liberty to remember that Palazzo Crescentini contained a large apartment known as the quarter of the signorino.†
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On one of the first days of May, some six months after old Mr. Touchett's death, a small group that might have been described by a painter as composing well was gathered in one of the many rooms of an ancient villa crowning an olive-muffled hill outside of the Roman gate of Florence.†
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The villa was a long, rather blank-looking structure, with the far-projecting roof which Tuscany loves and which, on the hills that encircle Florence, when considered from a distance, makes so harmonious a rectangle with the straight, dark, definite cypresses that usually rise in groups of three or four beside it.†
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In an apartment lighted by a row of three of these jealous apertures—one of the several distinct apartments into which the villa was divided and which were mainly occupied by foreigners of random race long resident in Florence—a gentleman was seated in company with a young girl and two good sisters from a religious house.†
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I've been in Florence a week.†
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But I've come to Florence to meet some friends who have lately arrived and as to whose movements I was at that time uncertain.†
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There's something I should like you to do at present in Florence.†
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The person I came to Florence to see.†
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Madame Merle, who had come to Florence on Mrs. Touchett's arrival at the invitation of this lady—Mrs.†
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It was excited, none the less, by the beautiful city of Florence, which pleased her not less than Madame Merle had promised; and if her unassisted perception had not been able to gauge its charms she had clever companions as priests to the mystery.†
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Madame Merle remained at home; she had seen the treasures of Florence again and again and had always something else to do.†
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Mr. Osmond talked of Florence, of Italy, of the pleasure of living in that country and of the abatements to the pleasure.†
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I wonder if I should forsake my natural mission if I were to settle in Florence.†
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Madame Merle had said nothing to put her on her guard; she alluded no more pointedly to him than to the other gentlemen of Florence, native and foreign, who now arrived in considerable numbers to pay their respects to Miss Archer's aunt.†
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Florence was not an austere city; but, as Mrs. Touchett said, she had to draw the line somewhere.†
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In that case Mrs. Touchett had better shut up her house; this perhaps would be the best course so long as she remained in Florence.†
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She had talked almost exclusively about herself; how much she should like to know Miss Archer; how thankful she should be for a real friend; how base the people in Florence were; how tired she was of the place; how much she should like to live somewhere else—in Paris, in London, in Washington; how impossible it was to get anything nice to wear in Italy except a little old lace; how dear the world was growing everywhere; what a life of suffering and privation she had led.†
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Henrietta's arrival had been announced by Mr. Bantling, who, coming down from Nice while she was at Venice, and expecting to find her in Florence, which she had not yet reached, called at Palazzo Crescentini to express his disappointment.†
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Her present purpose was to get down to Rome before the malaria should come on—she apparently supposed that it began on a fixed day; and with this design she was to spend at present but few days in Florence.†
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She professed herself delighted to be left at peace in Florence; she had locked up her apartment and sent her cook home to Palestrina.†
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After she had left Florence Gilbert Osmond met Madame Merle at the Countess Gemini's.†
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They talked of the matters naturally in order; her uncle's death, Ralph's state of health, the way she had passed her winter, her visit to Rome, her return to Florence, her plans for the summer, the hotel she was staying at; and then of Lord Warburton's own adventures, movements, intentions, impressions and present domicile.†
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I say fortunately, but this is perhaps a superficial view of the matter; since on perceiving the gentleman from Florence Ralph Touchett appeared to take the case as not committing him to joy.†
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Miss Stackpole had met Mr. Osmond in Florence, but she had already found occasion to say to Isabel that she liked him no better than her other admirers—than Mr. Touchett and Lord Warburton, and even than little Mr. Rosier in Paris.†
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Isabel exclaimed, remembering something he had referred to in Florence.†
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"His name's Gilbert Osmond—he lives in Florence," Ralph said.†
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Shortly before the time fixed in advance for her departure this young lady received from Mrs. Touchett a telegram running as follows: "Leave Florence 4th June for Bellaggio, and take you if you have not other views.†
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He would not return to Florence for ten days more, and in that time she would have started for Bellaggio.†
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This exchange took place in the large decorated sitting-room occupied by our friends at the hotel; it was late in the evening, and Ralph Touchett was to take his cousin back to Florence on the morrow.†
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Go and see my little daughter before you leave Florence.†
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She returned on the morrow to Florence, under her cousin's escort, and Ralph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought very well of the successive hours passed in the train that hurried his companion away from the city now distinguished by Gilbert Osmond's preference—hours that were to form the first stage in a larger scheme of travel.†
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Isabel was to have three days in Florence before the 4th of June, the date of Mrs. Touchett's departure, and she determined to devote the last of these to her promise to call on Pansy Osmond.†
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This lady was still at Casa Touchett; but she too was on the point of leaving Florence, her next station being an ancient castle in the mountains of Tuscany, the residence of a noble family of that country, whose acquaintance (she had known them, as she said, "forever") seemed to Isabel, in the light of certain photographs of their immense crenellated dwelling which her friend was able to show her, a precious privilege.†
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Isabel came back to Florence, but only after several months; an interval sufficiently replete with incident.†
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She made her way down to Rome without touching at Florence—having gone first to Venice and then proceeded southward by Ancona.†
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Isabel wrote to Mrs. Touchett to apologise for not presenting herself just yet in Florence, and her aunt replied characteristically enough.†
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(1) (Florence as in: the city)
city in central Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries; provincial capital of Tuscany
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
the name of a person or other place

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