"Scarcely; save in the sense of being uncle to a duke.

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Does she suppose him of ducal value?"

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I mean that your friend there isn't really anything.

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"And Aunt Maud—why shouldn't *she* know?

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Well, it had all risen for Densher to a considerable interest.

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She doesn't resemble me," said Kate, "who at least know what I lose."

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"Precisely.

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That," Densher laughed, "is her reason for liking *me*."

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"I see.

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Milly, it's true," she said, to be exact, "has no natural sense of social values, doesn't in the least understand our differences or know who's who or what's what."

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He's not, compared with other possibilities, 'in' it.

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"Mercy, no—far from it.

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"You scarcely call him, I suppose, one of the dukes."

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Yet he stuck a minute to the subject.

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It had made her again impatient.

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"Ah you know what I hold about that poor girl!"

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To which he added: "You absolutely hold that that poor girl doesn't?"

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"Oh!" Densher answered with a sound like his lordship's own.

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"Don't care for Lord Mark."

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"Don't say too much?"

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