Sense and Sensibility

The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry
Published : 1881
Type(s) : Novels, Romance
Source : http://www.gutenberg.org

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About James:
 Hawthorne
(1879)  A Bundle of Letters
(1879) The Turn of the Screw
(1898) The Awkward Age
(1899) The Bostonians
(1886) The Golden Bowl
(1904) Wings of the Dove
(1902) Daisy Miller
(1879)  The Lesson of the Master
(1888) The Author of Beltrafo
(1922)
Copyright:
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Contents
Chapter I 4
Chapter II 11
Chapter III 15
Chapter IV 21
Chapter V 26
Chapter VI 34
Chapter VII 40
Chapter VIII 46
Chapter IX 51
Chapter X 56
Chapter XI 64
Chapter XII 69
Chapter XIII 76
Chapter XIV 86
Chapter XV 93
Chapter XVI 103
Chapter XVII 111
Chapter XVIII 116
Chapter XIX 126
Chapter XX 139
Chapter XXI 147
Chapter XXII 152
Chapter XXIII 164
Chapter XXIV 170
Chapter XXV 179
Chapter XXVI 184
Chapter XXVII 193
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Chapter XXVIII 200
Chapter XXIX 204
Chapter XXX 210
Chapter XXXI 214
Chapter XXXII 219
Chapter XXXIII 224
Chapter XXXIV 229
Chapter XXXV 235
Chapter XXXVI 240
Chapter XXXVII 246
Chapter XXXVIII 253
Chapter XXXIX 261
Chapter XL 269
Chapter XLI 278
Chapter XLII 284
Chapter XLIII 293
Chapter XLIV 301
Chapter XLV 311
Chapter XLVI 318
Chapter XLVII 325
Chapter XLVIII 334
Chapter XLIX 344
Chapter L 352
Chapter LI 357
Chapter LII 367
Chapter LIII 374
Chapter LIV 380
Chapter LV 387
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"She went straight to her room."
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with his new-found cousin.
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non-residence. She detested bread-sauce, which, as she said, looked like a poultice
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"To please you I'll be an Englishman, I'll be a Turk!"
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"He does nothing," smiled Isabel; "he's a gentleman of large leisure."
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"Are you ashamed to show yourself?"
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"Ah, well now, there's a good deal to be said about that," Ralph rejoined.
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"It would have been pleasant if for nothing else than that it brought me here."
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liked him immensely.
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right that he should, and he would be certain to do what was right."
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"That's what your mother counts upon too," said Isabel.
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"But you knew I was in town; it was natural we should meet."
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