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In the meantime, I'm going to go ahead and get started on tonight's reading.

Tonight's readings are going to continue from The Awkward Age by Henry James.

Tonight we're starting with Chapter 3.

Mr. Longdon is the name of the chapter.

If Mitchie arrived exactly at the hour, it was quite by design and on a calculation over and above the prized little pleasure it might give him of ten minutes clear with his host whom it rarely befell him to see alone.

He had a theory of something special to go into,

of a plummet to sink or a feeler to put forth.

His state of mind, in short, was diplomatic and anxious.

But his hopes had a drop as he crossed the threshold.

His precaution had only assured him the company of a stranger for the person in the room to whom the servant announced him was not old van on the other hand this gentleman would clearly be old. What was it? The fellow Vanderbank had made it a matter of such

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