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  1. Henry James _ Daisy Miller

    The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.
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  2. Henry James _ Daisy Miller

    The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma
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  3. Henry James _ Daisy Miller

    Am I grave?', he asked. 'I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear.''You look as if you were taking me to a funeral. If that's a grin, your ears are very near together.
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  4. Henry James _ Daisy Miller

    My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.
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  5. Henry James _ Daisy Miller

    They are hopelessly vulgar. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians. They are bad enough to dislike, at any rate; and for this short life that is quite enough.
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  6. Henry James _ Daisy Miller

    I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.
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