
255 – The Golden Bowl
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The Importance of Reciprocity
The prince was to dine half past eight o'clock with a young lady on whose behalf the London lawyers had reached an inspired harmony. He thought of these fellows, from whom he was so for different, in English. It was Verver who told him he spoke English too well and that his only fault may not have been able to speak worse even to oblige her. When I speak worse, you see, I speak French. The girl took this, if she let him know, as a reflection on her own French,. which had always so dreamed of making good, of making better.
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