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Friday, 29 October 2004
Tuesday, 05 October 2004
Poor little Daisy Miller was, as I understand her, above all things innocent. It was not to make a scandal, or because she took pleasure in a scandal, that she "went on" with Giovanelli. she never took the measure really of the scandal she produced, and had no means of doing so; the was too ignorant, to irreflective, too little versed int he proportions of things...She was a flirt, a perfectly superficial and unmalicious one....I did not mean to suggest that she was playing off Giovanelli against Winterbourne--for she was too innocent for that. H. James, August 1880 letter.
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