The Ambassadors by Henry James
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"So far as possible. She's wonderfully able, but it's not her affair, and her life's a good deal overcharged. She has many, many things." "And you also?" "Oh yes--I've many too, if you will." "I see. But what I mean is," Miss Gostrey amended, "do you also look after the business?" "Oh no, I don't touch the business." "Only everything else?" "Well, yes--some things." "As for instance--?" Strether obligingly thought. "Well, the Review." "The Review?--you have a Review?" "Certainly. Woollett has a Review--which Mrs. Newsome, for the most part, magnificently pays for and which I, not at all magnificently, edit. My name's on the cover," Strether pursued, "and I'm really rather disappointed and hurt that you seem never to have heard of it." |
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