The Golden Bowl
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Amerigo, Charlotte, Maggie, Fanny Assingham, Mr. Verver
Rip's impressions
Difficult to sustain this length––definitely a skipping candidate––so don’t expect to enjoy too much until second read.
first line
The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber.
last lines
(spoiler alert)
And the truth of it had, with this force, after a moment, so strangely lighted his eyes that, as for pity and dread of them, she buried her own in his breast.
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