CHAPTER 1
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During a portion of the first half of the present century, and more
particularly during the latter part of it, there flourished and practised
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CHAPTER 2
Approximately: 5 Pages
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When the child was about ten years old, he invited his sister, Mrs.
Penniman, to come and stay with him. The Miss Slopers had been but
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CHAPTER 3
Approximately: 4 Pages
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As a child she had promised to be tall, but when she was sixteen
she ceased to grow, and her stature, like most other points in her
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CHAPTER 4
Approximately: 8 Pages
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Mrs. Penniman, with more buckles and bangles than ever, came, of course,
to the entertainment, accompanied by her niece; the Doctor, too, had
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CHAPTER 5
Approximately: 7 Pages
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He learned what he had asked some three or four days later, after Morris
Townsend, with his cousin, had called in Washington Square. Mrs. Penniman
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CHAPTER 6
Approximately: 9 Pages
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Mrs. Penniman even took for granted at times that other people had
as much imagination as herself; so that when, half an hour later, her
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CHAPTER 7
Approximately: 6 Pages
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He was, however, by no means so much in earnest as this might seem to
indicate; and, indeed, he was more than anything else amused with the
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CHAPTER 8
Approximately: 8 Pages
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If it were true that she was in love, she was certainly very quiet about
it; but the Doctor was of course prepared to admit that her quietness
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CHAPTER 9
Approximately: 8 Pages
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It was a regular custom with the family in Washington Square to go
and spend Sunday evening at Mrs. Almond's. On the Sunday after the
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CHAPTER 10
Approximately: 5 Pages
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Catherine received the young man the next day on the ground she had chosen
-- amid the chaste upholstery of a New York drawing-room furnished in the
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CHAPTER 11
Approximately: 7 Pages
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Catherine listened for her father when he came in that evening, and she
heard him go to his study. She sat quiet, though her heart was beating
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CHAPTER 12
Approximately: 9 Pages
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On the morrow, in the afternoon, he stayed at home, awaiting Mr.
Townsend's call -- a proceeding by which it appeared to him (justly
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CHAPTER 13
Approximately: 4 Pages
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It may be thought the Doctor was too positive, and Mrs. Almond intimated
as much. But, as he said, he had his impression; it seemed to him
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CHAPTER 14
Approximately: 11 Pages
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He wrote his frank letter to Mrs. Montgomery, who punctually answered
it, mentioning an hour at which he might present himself in the Second
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CHAPTER 15
Approximately: 5 Pages
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He had been puzzled by the way that Catherine carried herself;
her attitude at this sentimental crisis seemed to him unnaturally
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CHAPTER 16
Approximately: 10 Pages
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They had of course immediately spoken of Catherine. "Did she send me
a message, or -- or anything?" Morris asked. He appeared to think that
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CHAPTER 17
Approximately: 7 Pages
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Mrs. Penniman told Catherine that evening -- the two ladies were sitting
in the back parlour -- that she had had an interview with Morris Townsend;
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CHAPTER 18
Approximately: 9 Pages
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Catherine sat alone by the parlour fire -- sat there for more than
an hour, lost in her meditations. Her aunt seemed to her aggressive
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CHAPTER 19
Approximately: 5 Pages
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It was for reasons connected with this determination that on the morrow
he sought a few words of private conversation with Mrs. Penniman. He
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CHAPTER 20
Approximately: 9 Pages
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On the morrow, in the afternoon, she heard his voice at the door, and
his step in the hall. She received him in the big, bright front parlour,
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CHAPTER 21
Approximately: 7 Pages
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Dr. Sloper very soon imparted his conviction to Mrs. Almond, in the same
terms in which he had announced it to himself. "She's going to stick,
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CHAPTER 22
Approximately: 5 Pages
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He had slightly misrepresented the matter in saying that Catherine had
consented to take the great step. We left her just now declaring that
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CHAPTER 23
Approximately: 6 Pages
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If Morris Townsend was not to be included in this journey, no more was
Mrs. Penniman, who would have been thankful for an invitation, but who
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CHAPTER 24
Approximately: 7 Pages
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The Doctor, during the first six months he was abroad, never spoke to his
daughter of their little difference; partly on system, and partly because
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CHAPTER 25
Approximately: 7 Pages
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The voyage was indeed uncomfortable, and Catherine, on arriving in New
York, had not the compensation of "going off," in her father's phrase,
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CHAPTER 26
Approximately: 5 Pages
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If she had disturbed her niece's temper -- she began from this moment
forward to talk a good deal about Catherine's temper, an article
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CHAPTER 27
Approximately: 5 Pages
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The Doctor, of course, on his return, had a good deal of talk with
his sisters. He was at no great pains to narrate his travels or to
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CHAPTER 28
Approximately: 7 Pages
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The letter was a word of warning; it informed him that the Doctor had
come home more impracticable than ever. She might have reflected that
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CHAPTER 29
Approximately: 9 Pages
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He came again, without managing the last parting; and again and again,
without finding that Mrs. Penniman had as yet done much to pave the path
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CHAPTER 30
Approximately: 12 Pages
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It was almost her last outbreak of passive grief; at least, she never
indulged in another that the world knew anything about. But this one
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CHAPTER 31
Approximately: 5 Pages
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Though she had forced herself to be calm, she preferred practising this
virtue in private, and she forbore to show herself at tea -- a repast
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CHAPTER 32
Approximately: 6 Pages
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Our story has hitherto moved with very short steps, but as it approaches
its termination it must take a long stride. As time went on, it
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CHAPTER 33
Approximately: 5 Pages
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Little by little Dr. Sloper had retired from his profession; he
visited only those patients in whose symptoms he recognised a certain
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CHAPTER 34
Approximately: 5 Pages
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It was her habit to remain in town very late in the summer; she preferred
the house in Washington Square to any other habitation whatever, and
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CHAPTER 35
Approximately: 10 Pages
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Her refreshed attention to this gentleman had not those limits of which
Catherine desired, for herself, to be conscious; it lasted long enough
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