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...‘Well, you see, I don’t go out much, except to the courts.’ ‘Do you mean the law courts? Every one has got some profession over here! Are you very amb... ...is one of our celebrities. She is the woman in the world, I suppose, who has laboured most for every wise reform. I think I ought to tell you,’ Miss C... ...sured pace. She lectured on temperance and the rights of women; the ends she laboured for were to give the ballot to every woman in the country and to... ...the first flight of your imagination. She urged upon her companion the idea of labouring in the world of fashion, appeared to attribute to her familiar ... ...t it baffled her to understand why, when parents were so trashy, this natural law should not be suspended. Such a question brought her back, however, t... ...she knew; she had an example of the rest in the persons of two young Harvard law students, who presented themselves after tea on this same occasion. A... ... look at some of his beautiful things together. A day or two after this, Mr. Henry Burrage left a card at Miss Chancellor’s door, with a note in which... ...out her, and it proved two things: first, that she was much interested in Mr. Henry Burrage, and second, that her nature was extraordinarily beautiful.... ...herefore, proved, above all, that she cared more for her friend’s opinion of Henry Burrage than for her own—a reminder, certainly, of the responsibili...

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...d, but as my account of somebody?s impression of it--the terms of this person?s access to it and estimate of it contributing thus by some fine little law to intensification of interest. The somebody is often, among my shorter tales I recognise, but an unnamed, unintroduced and (save by right of intrinsic wit) unwarranted participant, the impersonal author?s concrete deputy...