Hallo Sabine,hier ist Bianca (Gabler)...Schön Dich hier zu treffen.. Lg..

"You can't honestly expect people to know as awfully much as you," he said.
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"You're so disappointing, you know," she returned; but more in pity - pity for herself - than in anger.
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"Oh I'm accustomed to you!" said Mrs. Westgate. "Do you know you English sometimes make the most wonderful speeches? The first time I came to London I went out to dine - as I told you, I've received a great deal of attention. After dinner, in the drawing-room, I had some conversation with an old lady - no, you mustn't look that way: I assure you I had! I forget what we talked about, but she presently said, in allusion to something we were discussing: 'Oh, you know, the aristocracy do so-and-so, but in one's own class of life it's very different.' In one's own class of life! What's a poor unprotected American woman to do in a country where she is liable to have that sort of thing said to her?"
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But though Anna Andreyevna had been rather agitated and touched during the reading, she looked now as though she would say: "Of course Alexander of Macedon was a hero, but why break the furniture?" etc.
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