Women don't know if it's agreeable or not."

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"If you mean not for you," Kate returned, "you may have reasons—and men don't count.

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"Not surely for every one."

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"Oh but it is!"

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"Ah but if the effect," said Densher with conscious superficiality, "isn't agreeable—?"

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He has somehow an effect without his being in any traceable way a cause."

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I don't know at least," she said, "what else to call it when a man's able to make himself without effort, without violence, without machinery of any sort, so intensely felt.

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"Universal.

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"Political?"

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She balanced indeed so that one would scarce have known what to expect; but she came out in time with a very sufficient "Yes!"

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Kate, as if for a more final opinion than had yet been asked of her, took a moment to think.

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"In Lord Mark's genius?"

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"And do you believe in that?"

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*The* thing's his genius."

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Besides, he's grand enough, with a duke in his family and at the other end of the string.

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But she's not a bit sordid; she only counts with the sordidness of others.

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"It isn't Lord Mark's grandeur," she went on without heeding this; "because perhaps in the line of that alone—as he has no money—more could be done.

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"Oh, oh!" said Densher; and his doubt was not all derisive.

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He's the best moreover we can get."

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That's undeniably something.

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