The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton - Part 1

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"You ought to buy it," said my host; "it's just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it's going for a song—you ought to buy it."

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"What a pity! He must have gone to market. But his daughter—?"

"There was nobody about. At least I saw no one."

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