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4,689	2833_chapter_55	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel wakes and remembers what Ralph said about the Gardencourt ghost. Now that she has suffered greatly, she can feel its presence. In the moment that Ralph dies, she sees a vision of him, kindly looking back at her. Ralph dies, with his mother by his side. For the first time, we see Mrs. Touchett truly moved - she i...	[ "He had told her, the first evening she ever spent at Gardencourt, that\nif she should live to suffer enough she might some day see the ghost\nwith which the old house was duly provided. She apparently had fulfilled\nthe necessary condition; for the next morning, in the cold, faint\ndawn, she knew that a spirit was...
4,642	2833_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One afternoon, Mr. Touchett and his son Ralph are entertaining Lord Warburton at tea. Mr. Touchett is infirm and remains in his chair. He and Ralph are busy advising Lord Warburton to interest himself in some woman. Lord Warburton says that he is not interested in marrying until he meets a really interesting woman. Mr....	[ "Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable\nthan the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There\nare circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some\npeople of course never do,--the situation is in itself delightful. Those\nthat I have in mind in be...
4,643	2833_chapters_3-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel's aunt has several peculiarities. For example, she long ago recognized the fact that she and her husband did not desire the same things in life; therefore, she decided to set up a house in Florence and pay wifely visits to her husband once a year. She also makes trips to America to keep in touch with some of her...	[ "Mrs. Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her\nbehaviour on returning to her husband's house after many months was a\nnoticeable specimen. She had her own way of doing all that she did, and\nthis is the simplest description of a character which, although by no\nmeans without liberal motions, ...
4,644	2833_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph Touchett had been educated in America and England. He was a small boy when his father came to England as a partner in a bank. Mr. Touchett has retained all of his American qualities, but Ralph grew up transformed into an Englishman. He has discovered that he is dying and has adjusted to this fact. He knows that h...	[ "Ralph Touchett was a philosopher, but nevertheless he knocked at his\nmother's door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness. Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted\nthat of his progenitors his father ministered most to his sense of the\nsweetness of filial dependence. His f...
4,701	2833_chapters_6-7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel Archer is a person "of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active." She also possesses a fine perception and cares very much for knowledge. She is also determined to see the world as a place of brightness and free expansion, but "sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day...	[ "Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was\nremarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind\nthan most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger\nperception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was\ntinged with the unfamiliar. It is t...
4,702	2833_chapters_8-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Since Lord Warburton has invited Isabel to come to see his house, Isabel questions her uncle about him. From Ralph, she has heard that he is a man of very high social position and of great wealth. He is greatly admired and is somewhat of a radical. After she has found out a great deal about him, Isabel mentions that sh...	[ "As she was devoted to romantic effects Lord Warburton ventured to\nexpress a hope that she would come some day and see his house, a very\ncurious old place. He extracted from Mrs. Touchett a promise that she\nwould bring her niece to Lockleigh, and Ralph signified his willingness\nto attend the ladies if his fathe...
4,703	2833_chapters_10-12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After returning from her visit to Lord Warburton's, Isabel receives a letter from Henrietta Stackpole, who has come to Europe to do a series of articles on European life and wants to meet people. Isabel mentions the letter to her uncle, who immediately extends Henrietta an invitation. Ralph accompanies Isabel to meet H...	[ "The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend Miss Stackpole--a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. \"Here I am, my lovely friend,\" Miss Stackpole...
4,652	2833_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Wondering whether she might be a cold, hard, priggish person, Isabel decides to tell her uncle about Lord Warburton's proposal. Mr. Touchett's first question is whether she accepted. Upon learning that she plans to decline Lord Warburton's offer, he tells her that he has known about Lord Warburton's intentions because ...	[ "It was this feeling and not the wish to ask advice--she had no desire\nwhatever for that--that led her to speak to her uncle of what had taken\nplace. She wished to speak to some one; she should feel more natural,\nmore human, and her uncle, for this purpose, presented himself in a\nmore attractive light than eith...
4,653	2833_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Before Isabel leaves for London, she receives another visit from Lord Warburton. Henrietta Stackpole is delighted to meet a real English lord and interrogates him about all aspects of his personal life. As soon as he can, he escapes from Henrietta and approaches Isabel. He questions Isabel about her refusal. She tries ...	[ "Miss Stackpole would have prepared to start immediately; but Isabel, as\nwe have seen, had been notified that Lord Warburton would come again to\nGardencourt, and she believed it her duty to remain there and see him. For four or five days he had made no response to her letter; then he had\nwritten, very briefly, t...
4,704	2833_chapters_15-16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Touchett questions the propriety of Isabel's going to London with Henrietta and Ralph. But she implies that a girl who has refused a great proposal can perhaps afford to be unconventional. In London, Ralph introduces Isabel and Henrietta to an old acquaintance, Mr. Bantling, who finds Henrietta amusing and delight...	[ "It had been arranged that the two young ladies should proceed to London\nunder Ralph's escort, though Mrs. Touchett looked with little favour on\nthe plan. It was just the sort of plan, she said, that Miss Stackpole\nwould be sure to suggest, and she enquired if the correspondent of\nthe Interviewer was to take th...
4,705	2833_chapters_17-18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Shortly after Caspar Goodwood's visit, Henrietta questions Isabel about the interview, only to be told that Goodwood is returning to America without having received any satisfaction from Isabel. Henrietta fears that Isabel is losing her sense of values and attempts to advise Isabel about her conduct. Isabel is forced t...	[ "She was not praying; she was trembling--trembling all over. Vibration was easy to her, was in fact too constant with her, and she found herself now humming like a smitten harp. She only asked, however, to put on the cover, to case herself again in brown holland, but she wished to resist her excitement, and the att...
4,706	2833_chapters_19-20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel's friendship for Madame Merle ripens very quickly during the days of Mr. Touchett's illness. She finds herself saying things to this lady more candidly than she has ever spoken to others. There was no doubt Madame Merle "had great merits -- she was charming, sympathetic, intelligent, cultivated. More than this ....	[ "As Mrs. Touchett had foretold, Isabel and Madame Merle were thrown\nmuch together during the illness of their host, so that if they had\nnot become intimate it would have been almost a breach of good manners. Their manners were of the best, but in addition to this they happened\nto please each other. It is perhaps...
4,700	2833_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Touchett, true to her nature, leaves Paris on the day that she had previously set for her departure. Accompanied by Isabel, she stops by the Mediterranean to see her son. Isabel takes the first available opportunity to ask Ralph if he knew that Mr. Touchett planned to leave her so much money. He reveals that he di...	[ "Mrs. Touchett, before arriving in Paris, had fixed the day for her\ndeparture and by the middle of February had begun to travel southward.\nShe interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo,\non the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull,\nbright winter beneath a slow-mov...
4,707	2833_chapters_22-23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	About six months after Mr. Touchett's death, a gentleman named Gilbert Osmond is seated in his drawing room with two sisters from a convent and his young fifteen-year-old daughter, Pansy. The nuns have just brought Pansy from the convent where she had been in school for a long time. Gilbert Osmond is expressing his sat...	[ "On one of the first days of May, some six months after old Mr. Touchett's death, a small group that might have been described by a painter as composing well was gathered in one of the many rooms of an ancient villa crowning an olive-muffled hill outside of the Roman gate of Florence. The villa was a long, rather b...
4,708	2833_chapters_24-25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel decides that no harm can come to her from a simple social visit to Gilbert Osmond's house. There, she meets his sister the Countess Gemini and his daughter Pansy. Osmond is very gracious and discusses his collection of art objects and his daughter with quiet admiration. Alone with Osmond, Isabel is asked her opi...	[ "It would certainly have been hard to see what injury could arise to\nher from the visit she presently paid to Mr. Osmond's hill-top. Nothing\ncould have been more charming than this occasion--a soft afternoon in\nthe full maturity of the Tuscan spring. The companions drove out of the\nRoman Gate, beneath the enorm...
4,709	2833_chapters_26-28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Gilbert Osmond calls so often at Mrs. Touchett's home that she becomes suspicious. She asks Madame Merle directly if Osmond is interested in Isabel. Madame Merle, of course, denies that Osmond is interested in Isabel but tells Mrs. Touchett that she will discreetly inquire of his intentions. She warns Mrs. Touchett not...	[ "Gilbert Osmond came to see Isabel again; that is he came to Palazzo\nCrescentini. He had other friends there as well, and to Mrs. Touchett\nand Madame Merle he was always impartially civil; but the former of\nthese ladies noted the fact that in the course of a fortnight he\ncalled five times, and compared it with ...
4,710	2833_chapters_29-31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Shortly after Lord Warburton leaves, Isabel receives a note from her aunt inviting her for a visit to another part of Italy. Isabel accepts and bids Osmond good-bye. Osmond tells her that he approves of traveling and would do so himself if he had her means. Before she leaves, he tells her that he finds himself in love ...	[ "Ralph Touchett, in talk with his excellent friend, had rather markedly\nqualified, as we know, his recognition of Gilbert Osmond's personal\nmerits; but he might really have felt himself illiberal in the light of\nthat gentleman's conduct during the rest of the visit to Rome. Osmond\nspent a portion of each day wi...
4,711	2833_chapters_32-35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As soon as Caspar Goodwood hears that Isabel is engaged, he comes straight to Florence to see her. Isabel receives him in her aunt's house. He tells her frankly that he is disappointed and is selfish enough to wish her anything except marriage to another man. She wants to know if he told Henrietta. He tells her that He...	[ "It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood\nat the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any\nof the matters I have rapidly sketched. She was not turned to the past,\nbut to the immediate, impending hour. She had reason to expect a scene,\nand she was not fond of...
4,712	2833_chapters_36-38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Some four years later, young Edward Rosier rings at Madame Merle's apartment. He has come to tell Madame Merle of his love for Pansy Osmond and his fear that Mr. Osmond does not think highly of him. He wonders if Madame Merle can intercede in his behalf. Madame Merle explains to him that Pansy's fate lies almost totall...	[ "One afternoon of the autumn of 1876, toward dusk, a young man of\npleasing appearance rang at the door of a small apartment on the third\nfloor of an old Roman house. On its being opened he enquired for Madame\nMerle; whereupon the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face\nand a lady's maid's manner, usher...
4,673	2833_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When it came time for Isabel to marry, there had been a very quiet service with only her aunt and cousin invited. The Countess Gemini and Pansy Osmond were the only other people present. Henrietta let it be known that Isabel had taken a step that put a barrier between them. Immediately after the marriage Osmond attempt...	[ "It will probably not surprise the reflective reader that Ralph Touchett\nshould have seen less of his cousin since her marriage than he had done\nbefore that event--an event of which he took such a view as could hardly\nprove a confirmation of intimacy. He had uttered his thought, as we\nknow, and after this had h...
4,713	2833_chapters_40-41	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Since her marriage Madame Merle comes only seldom to Isabel's house. She has candidly explained that, since she had known Osmond before Isabel married him, she thought it best not to come too often. About a month after Lord Warburton's arrival, Isabel returns from a ride with Pansy to discover Madame Merle in private c...	[ "Isabel had not seen much of Madame Merle since her marriage, this lady\nhaving indulged in frequent absences from Rome. At one time she had\nspent six months in England; at another she had passed a portion of a\nwinter in Paris. She had made numerous visits to distant friends and\ngave countenance to the idea that...
4,676	2833_chapter_42	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Osmond's demand upon Isabel causes her to review her life. She wonders if Lord Warburton is in fact interested in Pansy because he still harbors a love for her. This thought leads her to re-examine her marriage with Osmond. As with his comments about Lord Warburton, everything he touches turns to something ugly and unp...	[ "She had answered nothing because his words had put the situation before\nher and she was absorbed in looking at it. There was something in them\nthat suddenly made vibrations deep, so that she had been afraid to trust\nherself to speak. After he had gone she leaned back in her chair and\nclosed her eyes; and for a...
4,677	2833_chapter_43	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At a dance party, Rosier approaches Isabel and asks about Pansy. He learns that Osmond has forbidden Pansy to associate or dance with him. Isabel has to send him away when she sees Pansy coming. Lord Warburton comes to Isabel and prefers to talk with her rather than to dance. She reminds him that some ten days ago he h...	[ "Three nights after this she took Pansy to a great party, to which\nOsmond, who never went to dances, did not accompany them. Pansy was as\nready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had\nnot extended to other pleasures the interdict she had seen placed on\nthose of love. If she was biding he...
4,678	2833_chapter_44	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Countess Gemini has not been a welcome visitor in her brother's home. But she has received an invitation and is preparing for a visit when she receives a call from Henrietta Stackpole. Henrietta asks the Countess for some information about Isabel, and explains that Osmond doesn't like her. The Countess has to admit...	[ "The Countess Gemini was often extremely bored--bored, in her own phrase,\nto extinction. She had not been extinguished, however, and she\nstruggled bravely enough with her destiny, which had been to marry an\nunaccommodating Florentine who insisted upon living in his native town,\nwhere he enjoyed such considerati...
4,714	2833_chapters_45-46	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel knows that her visits with Ralph are displeasing to her husband. "He wished her to have no freedom of mind, and he knew perfectly well that Ralph was an apostle of freedom." Yet Isabel knows that she has not yet directly opposed her husband; nor has he yet "formally forbidden her to call upon Ralph." Isabel is t...	[ "I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be\ndispleased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome. That knowledge\nwas very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day\nafter she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his\nsincerity; and at this moment, as at ...
4,715	2833_chapters_47-48	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Henrietta arrives in Rome and Isabel must get her a room in a hotel because Osmond objects to Henrietta so strongly. But at last Isabel can admit to someone how miserable she is. Henrietta wants Isabel to leave Osmond, but Isabel explains that she "can't publish" her mistake before the entire world. Caspar Goodwood bec...	[ "It was from Henrietta Stackpole that she learned how Caspar Goodwood had\ncome to Rome; an event that took place three days after Lord Warburton's\ndeparture. This latter fact had been preceded by an incident of some\nimportance to Isabel--the temporary absence, once again, of Madame\nMerle, who had gone to Naples...
4,716	2833_chapters_49-51	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Merle returns to Rome a short time after Lord Warburton's departure. She immediately questions Isabel about Lord Warburton's departure, and threatens to ask Pansy what Isabel said to her. Suddenly Isabel is aware that Madame Merle "was a powerful agent in her destiny." Her interest, Isabel realized, was the same...	[ "Madame Merle had not made her appearance at Palazzo Roccanera on the\nevening of that Thursday of which I have narrated some of the incidents,\nand Isabel, though she observed her absence, was not surprised by it.\nThings had passed between them which added no stimulus to sociability,\nand to appreciate which we m...
4,686	2833_chapter_52	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Before leaving for England, Isabel makes one visit to see Pansy. At the convent she meets Madame Merle, who has just been with Pansy. She tries to explain her reasons, but Isabel is not interested. Pansy is changed. She has had enough of the convent and would like to come out. She now knows that she must obey her fathe...	[ "There was a train for Turin and Paris that evening; and after the\nCountess had left her Isabel had a rapid and decisive conference with\nher maid, who was discreet, devoted and active. After this she thought\n(except of her journey) only of one thing. She must go and see Pansy;\nfrom her she couldn't turn away. S...
4,717	2833_chapters_53-54	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Isabel arrives in London, Henrietta and Mr. Bantling are there to meet her. As soon as the two ladies are alone Henrietta asks if Osmond made a scene about Isabel's departure. Isabel replies that it wouldn't be called a scene. Henrietta objects to Isabel's promising Pansy to return and hopes that Isabel will recon...	[ "It was not with surprise, it was with a feeling which in other\ncircumstances would have had much of the effect of joy, that as Isabel\ndescended from the Paris Mail at Charing Cross she stepped into the\narms, as it were--or at any rate into the hands--of Henrietta Stackpole. She had telegraphed to her friend fro...
4,689	2833_chapter_55	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph had told Isabel long ago that if she wanted to see the ghosts in Gardencourt, she must suffer greatly. During the night she senses the presence of something and upon leaving her room, learns that Ralph has just died. Isabel remains at Gardencourt for a while so as to comfort her aunt and to recover her own streng...	[ "He had told her, the first evening she ever spent at Gardencourt, that\nif she should live to suffer enough she might some day see the ghost\nwith which the old house was duly provided. She apparently had fulfilled\nthe necessary condition; for the next morning, in the cold, faint\ndawn, she knew that a spirit was...
4,718	2833_chapters_1-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is teatime at Gardencourt, an old English country manor built during the reign of Edward VI and now owned by an old American banker. The old man now sits on the lawn holding a large teacup; his sickly son and a young Englishman stroll nearby, stopping occasionally to make sure that he is comfortable. The old man tel...	[ "Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable\nthan the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There\nare circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some\npeople of course never do,--the situation is in itself delightful. Those\nthat I have in mind in be...
4,719	2833_chapters_4-7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Of Isabel's three sisters, she was always considered the intellectual. Edith was the prettiest, and Lillian was the most sensible. Lillian is now married to a lawyer in New York and considers it her duty to look after Isabel. Her husband, Edmund, disapproves of Isabel--when Lillian says that her trip to Europe will giv...	[ "Mrs. Ludlow was the eldest of the three sisters, and was usually thought\nthe most sensible; the classification being in general that Lilian\nwas the practical one, Edith the beauty and Isabel the \"intellectual\"\nsuperior. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an\nofficer of the United States Engi...
4,720	2833_chapters_8-11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton is quite taken with Isabel, and he convinces Mrs. Touchett to grant her permission for the young woman to pay a visit to Lockleigh, his manor house. Here, he tells Isabel something of his family history, and they discuss English and American politics. Isabel realizes that Warburton does not think much of...	[ "As she was devoted to romantic effects Lord Warburton ventured to\nexpress a hope that she would come some day and see his house, a very\ncurious old place. He extracted from Mrs. Touchett a promise that she\nwould bring her niece to Lockleigh, and Ralph signified his willingness\nto attend the ladies if his fathe...
4,721	2833_chapters_12-15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton approaches, and Isabel can tell at once that he has come to declare his feelings for her. She is deeply confused by this, as she has always considered men solely for their moral qualities and never for their positions of power and influence; she has never met a man as aristocratic as Warburton and worrie...	[ "She put the letter into her pocket and offered her visitor a smile of\nwelcome, exhibiting no trace of discomposure and half surprised at her\ncoolness.", "\"They told me you were out here,\" said Lord Warburton; \"and as there\nwas no one in the drawing-room and it's really you that I wish to see, I\ncame out w...
4,722	2833_chapters_16-19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel's decision to forbid Ralph from accompanying her to the hotel was not due to a desire to humiliate him, but rather to a realization that she has been taxing his strength by taking up so much of his time since they left for London. She also realizes that she has had very little time to herself, and she looks forw...	[ "She had had no hidden motive in wishing him not to take her home; it simply struck her that for some days past she had consumed an inordinate quantity of his time, and the independent spirit of the American girl whom extravagance of aid places in an attitude that she ends by finding \"affected\" had made her decid...
4,723	2833_chapters_20-24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Not long after Mr. Touchett's death, Madame Merle arrives at the Touchetts' London home and discovers that the family is preparing to sell it. Mrs. Touchett tells Madame Merle how happy she is that her husband has left her financially secure; Merle is extremely jealous, though she keeps her feelings guarded. When she l...	[ "Some fortnight after this Madame Merle drove up in a hansom cab to\nthe house in Winchester Square. As she descended from her vehicle she\nobserved, suspended between the dining-room windows, a large, neat,\nwooden tablet, on whose fresh black ground were inscribed in white paint\nthe words--\"This noble freehold ...
4,724	2833_chapters_25-27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Osmond talks to Isabel, the Countess Gemini tells Madame Merle in hushed tones that she does not agree with her scheme to manipulate Isabel into marrying her brother. She threatens to disrupt the plan, but Merle intimidates her by noting that she, Isabel, and Osmond all have stronger wills than the Countess. But the...	[ "While this sufficiently intimate colloquy (prolonged for some time after\nwe cease to follow it) went forward Madame Merle and her companion,\nbreaking a silence of some duration, had begun to exchange remarks.\nThey were sitting in an attitude of unexpressed expectancy; an attitude\nespecially marked on the part ...
4,725	2833_chapters_28-31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton still loves Isabel, and Isabel is just as obviously taken with Gilbert Osmond. It hurts Warburton to see them together; one night at the opera, he hurries away after seeing them seated next to one another. On his way out, he sees Ralph, who also seems miserable. The next day, Warburton tells Isabel that ...	[ "On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his\nfriends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they\nhad gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying\nthem a visit in their box after the easy Italian fashion; and when\nhe had obtained his admittance--it w...
4,726	2833_chapters_32-36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Some time passes; when we rejoin Isabel's life, she is waiting anxiously for Caspar Goodwood to arrive, dreading the scene she believes will ensue. Goodwood enters and tells Isabel that he has received her letter informing him of her decision to marry Gilbert Osmond. Isabel says that she has told no one but him and Mad...	[ "It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood\nat the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any\nof the matters I have rapidly sketched. She was not turned to the past,\nbut to the immediate, impending hour. She had reason to expect a scene,\nand she was not fond of...
4,727	2833_chapters_37-40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Rosier wanders through the Osmonds' palazzo, searching for Pansy. He encounters Gilbert Osmond, who insultingly refuses to shake his hand, instead offering him only two fingers to grasp. They discuss Osmond's art collection, and when Rosier asks whether he would like to sell anything, Osmond replies that there is nothi...	[ "Pansy was not in the first of the rooms, a large apartment with a concave ceiling and walls covered with old red damask; it was here Mrs. Osmond usually sat--though she was not in her most customary place to-night--and that a circle of more especial intimates gathered about the fire. The room was flushed with subd...
4,728	2833_chapters_41-44	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel sits in the drawing room listening to Pansy and Lord Warburton converse; she is pleased by the way Warburton treats her stepdaughter, noting that he speaks to her as an equal. She wonders briefly what Pansy will think about her father and Madame Merle's dismissal of Rosier, but she decides that Pansy is so passi...	[ "Osmond touched on this matter that evening for the first time; coming\nvery late into the drawing-room, where she was sitting alone. They had\nspent the evening at home, and Pansy had gone to bed; he himself had\nbeen sitting since dinner in a small apartment in which he had arranged\nhis books and which he called...
4,729	2833_chapters_45-48	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Osmond is angry with Isabel for spending so much time with Ralph; Isabel knows that Osmond wants to deny her any freedom of thought, and he knows that Ralph encourages her freedom. Isabel continues to see Ralph, who is clearly dying; but she tries to limit the time she spends with him to avoid conflict with her husband...	[ "I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be\ndispleased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome. That knowledge\nwas very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day\nafter she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his\nsincerity; and at this moment, as at ...
4,716	2833_chapters_49-51	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Madame Merle confronts Isabel about her role in Lord Warburton's departure from Rome, Isabel is shocked by Merle's presumptuousness--she sounds as though she is speaking as Osmond's representative, and not merely as a distant acquaintance of the family. Propriety would dictate that the entire incident is none of M...	[ "Madame Merle had not made her appearance at Palazzo Roccanera on the\nevening of that Thursday of which I have narrated some of the incidents,\nand Isabel, though she observed her absence, was not surprised by it.\nThings had passed between them which added no stimulus to sociability,\nand to appreciate which we m...
4,730	2833_chapters_52-55	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel visits Pansy at the convent shortly before leaving for England. Here, she is surprised to encounter Madame Merle. Merle seems uncharacteristically awkward around her, even fumbling over her words, and Isabel realizes that Merle has guessed that she knows Pansy is Merle's daughter. Pansy seems slightly dejected, ...	[ "There was a train for Turin and Paris that evening; and after the\nCountess had left her Isabel had a rapid and decisive conference with\nher maid, who was discreet, devoted and active. After this she thought\n(except of her journey) only of one thing. She must go and see Pansy;\nfrom her she couldn't turn away. S...
4,690	2833_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	CHAPTER SUMMARIES WITH NOTES VOLUME 1 Chapter 1 One of the best hours of the day takes place during afternoon tea. The setting of this English tea is an old English country-house. The light is perfect and all the elements of the tea service are perfect. An old man sits in a chair on the lawn holding an unusually large ...	[ "Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable\nthan the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There\nare circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some\npeople of course never do,--the situation is in itself delightful. Those\nthat I have in mind in be...
4,691	2833_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph Touchett wanders away from his father and Lord Warburton as they chat. Suddenly his dog begins to bark excitedly at a young woman who has just stepped out of the door of the house. The dog is more welcoming than threatening in its bark and the woman immediately picks the dog up. Ralph is struck by the young woman...	[ "While this exchange of pleasantries took place between the two Ralph\nTouchett wandered away a little, with his usual slouching gait, his\nhands in his pockets and his little rowdyish terrier at his heels. His\nface was turned toward the house, but his eyes were bent musingly on the\nlawn; so that he had been an o...
4,692	2833_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Touchett has many odd points. She does everything in her own way. When Mrs. Touchett comes to visit her husband and son, she always retires into impenetrable seclusion for at least a few hours instead of greeting them immediately. She waits until she gets herself in order and then she sees them. She has been separ...	[ "Mrs. Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her\nbehaviour on returning to her husband's house after many months was a\nnoticeable specimen. She had her own way of doing all that she did, and\nthis is the simplest description of a character which, although by no\nmeans without liberal motions, ...
4,693	2833_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Lillian Ludlow, Isabels eldest sister, is considered the most sensible of the three sisters. Edith is the beauty and Isabel is the intellectual one, according to people who know them. Edith married an officer of the U.S. Engineers and moved out West. Lilian had married a New York lawyer. He marriage isnt altogethe...	[ "Mrs. Ludlow was the eldest of the three sisters, and was usually thought\nthe most sensible; the classification being in general that Lilian\nwas the practical one, Edith the beauty and Isabel the \"intellectual\"\nsuperior. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an\nofficer of the United States Engi...
4,644	2833_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph Touchett visits his mother in her rooms. She asks about his health and Mr. Touchetts health and says its a good thing she didnt remain in England or she might have "given out." Ralph smiles to think of this happening to such a formidable woman. Ralph had been a small boy when his father had come to England as a s...	[ "Ralph Touchett was a philosopher, but nevertheless he knocked at his\nmother's door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness. Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted\nthat of his progenitors his father ministered most to his sense of the\nsweetness of filial dependence. His f...
4,645	2833_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel Archer entertains many theories with her active imagination. Most of the people of her life have regarded her as much smarter than they and she has accepted this estimation as true. Her paternal aunt, Mrs. Varian, once spread the rumor that Isabel was working on a book. Mrs. Varian had a reverence for books, but...	[ "Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was\nremarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind\nthan most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger\nperception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was\ntinged with the unfamiliar. It is t...
4,646	2833_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel and Ralph spend a great deal of time together talking about the British customs and politics. The Touchetts receive very few guests, so Isabel is left alone with her family members most of the time. Isabel is both critical and sentimental. She tends to respond to criticisms of America with vigorous defense. She ...	[ "The two amused themselves, time and again, with talking of the attitude\nof the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to\nappeal to it; but in fact the British public remained for the present\nprofoundly indifferent to Miss Isabel Archer, whose fortune had dropped\nher, as her cousin said, int...
4,647	2833_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton invites Isabel to come and see his house, Lockleigh. He gets Mrs. Touchett to agree to a visit. He tells Isabel about his family. His parents are dead and he has two brothers and four sisters. His elder brother is a clergyman and very conservative, his younger brother is in the army in India and lives a ...	[ "As she was devoted to romantic effects Lord Warburton ventured to\nexpress a hope that she would come some day and see his house, a very\ncurious old place. He extracted from Mrs. Touchett a promise that she\nwould bring her niece to Lockleigh, and Ralph signified his willingness\nto attend the ladies if his fathe...
4,648	2833_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The two Misses Molyneux, Lord Warburtons sisters, come to see Isabel at Gardencourt. She finds them very sweet and is interested to see that they are not at all "morbid," a trait she has found to her distaste in some of her American friends and which she worries is present in her own nature. When she speaks of them to ...	[ "The two Misses Molyneux, this nobleman's sisters, came presently to call\nupon her, and Isabel took a fancy to the young ladies, who appeared to\nher to show a most original stamp. It is true that when she described\nthem to her cousin by that term he declared that no epithet could be\nless applicable than this to...
4,649	2833_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel receives a note from her friend Henrietta Stackpole informing her that she has arrived in England and wants to see her as well as to get some information about the "inner life" of English society. Isabel is a little uncomfortable with the news of her friends arrival, but nevertheless asks Mr. Touchett who extend...	[ "The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend Miss Stackpole--a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. \"Here I am, my lovely friend,\" Miss Stackpole...
4,650	2833_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph Touchett is careful from henceforth not to mistake Henrietta Stackpoles inquisitive nature for one of personal interest. He realizes that for Henrietta, people are "simple and homogenous organisms." Since he is "too perverted a representative of the nature of " he decides not to deal with her in a reciprocal rela...	[ "He took a resolve after this not to misinterpret her words even when\nMiss Stackpole appeared to strike the personal note most strongly. He\nbethought himself that persons, in her view, were simple and homogeneous\norganisms, and that he, for his own part, was too perverted a\nrepresentative of the nature of man t...
4,651	2833_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel puts the letter in her pocket and offers her hand in greeting to Lord Warburton. It is clear he has come just to see her and she is sure it has to do with a romantic intent. She had always thought of men only in relation to their moral nature, never in relation to their standing in the world. Lord Warburton is a...	[ "She put the letter into her pocket and offered her visitor a smile of\nwelcome, exhibiting no trace of discomposure and half surprised at her\ncoolness.", "\"They told me you were out here,\" said Lord Warburton; \"and as there\nwas no one in the drawing-room and it's really you that I wish to see, I\ncame out w...
4,652	2833_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel goes to her uncle to discuss the matter of Lord Warburtons offer of marriage. She tells him she doesnt plan to accept the offer. He tells her Lord Warburton has already written to him telling him of his plans to propose. Isabel says she doesnt want to get married at this point in her life. During their discussio...	[ "It was this feeling and not the wish to ask advice--she had no desire\nwhatever for that--that led her to speak to her uncle of what had taken\nplace. She wished to speak to some one; she should feel more natural,\nmore human, and her uncle, for this purpose, presented himself in a\nmore attractive light than eith...
4,653	2833_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Henrietta wants to leave immediately for London, but Isabel is kept waiting for Lord Warburton. He waits a few days to respond to her letter, and when he does, he writes to say he will be coming to call in a few days. He brings his sister, the elder Miss Molyneux, who has a "nun-like forehead" and wears a silver cross....	[ "Miss Stackpole would have prepared to start immediately; but Isabel, as\nwe have seen, had been notified that Lord Warburton would come again to\nGardencourt, and she believed it her duty to remain there and see him. For four or five days he had made no response to her letter; then he had\nwritten, very briefly, t...
4,694	2833_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Even though Mrs. Touchett doesnt quite approve of the plan of Isabel and Henrietta going to London with only Ralph as an escort, she doesnt stop them. Isabel is going in search of "local color." Isabel talks with her aunt about her rejection of Lord Warburton. Mrs. Touchett tells her she would have liked for Isabel to ...	[ "It had been arranged that the two young ladies should proceed to London\nunder Ralph's escort, though Mrs. Touchett looked with little favour on\nthe plan. It was just the sort of plan, she said, that Miss Stackpole\nwould be sure to suggest, and she enquired if the correspondent of\nthe Interviewer was to take th...
4,695	2833_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel Archer had told Ralph Touchett to let her go home alone because she had realized lately that she hasnt had time alone for quite some time. She is interrupted, however, by the announcement of Caspar Goodwood. She reluctantly goes down to meet him in the parlor. She is upset to find out about Henrietta Stackpoles ...	[ "She had had no hidden motive in wishing him not to take her home; it simply struck her that for some days past she had consumed an inordinate quantity of his time, and the independent spirit of the American girl whom extravagance of aid places in an attitude that she ends by finding \"affected\" had made her decid...
4,696	2833_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel isnt lying with her face hidden in her arms to pray, but to recover from the high emotions she feels. She is actually rejoicing at having gotten rid of Caspar Goodwood. She feels guilty over it, but she also feels a thrill at having just exercised her power. She feels that "she had done what was truest to her pl...	[ "She was not praying; she was trembling--trembling all over. Vibration was easy to her, was in fact too constant with her, and she found herself now humming like a smitten harp. She only asked, however, to put on the cover, to case herself again in brown holland, but she wished to resist her excitement, and the att...
4,697	2833_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel and Ralph ride out to Gardencourt together. Once there, Isabel is left on her own. She goes down to look for Mrs. Touchett and finds someone in the parlor playing the piano very beautifully. At first she thinks it is a French woman when they begin to speak, then Mrs. Touchett comes in and she is revealed to be a...	[ "It had occurred to Ralph that, in the conditions, Isabel's parting with\nher friend might be of a slightly embarrassed nature, and he went down\nto the door of the hotel in advance of his cousin, who, after a slight\ndelay, followed with the traces of an unaccepted remonstrance, as he\nthought, in her eyes. The tw...
4,698	2833_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel and Madame Merle spend a great deal of time together. Isabel often thinks that she reveals too much of herself to Madame Merle. She thinks Madame Merle has the great talent of knowing how to feel. Madame Merle, on the other hand, says that now that she is forty, she doesnt know how to feel any more, but does kno...	[ "As Mrs. Touchett had foretold, Isabel and Madame Merle were thrown\nmuch together during the illness of their host, so that if they had\nnot become intimate it would have been almost a breach of good manners. Their manners were of the best, but in addition to this they happened\nto please each other. It is perhaps...
4,699	2833_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A few weeks after the death of Mr. Touchett, Madame Merle visits Winchester Square and is surprised to find it is already being dismantled to be sold. Mrs. Touchett says she is pleased that her husband left her in such good financial shape and the narrator shows the Madame Merle is thinking unflattering things about Mr...	[ "Some fortnight after this Madame Merle drove up in a hansom cab to\nthe house in Winchester Square. As she descended from her vehicle she\nobserved, suspended between the dining-room windows, a large, neat,\nwooden tablet, on whose fresh black ground were inscribed in white paint\nthe words--\"This noble freehold ...
4,700	2833_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Touchett prepares to leave Paris for Italy. She tells Isabel before they leave that she now has a clear choice whether to remain with her or go her own way. She says that "property erects a kind of barrier" and that when a woman is rich she can do many things that would be stoutly condemned if she were not. Isabel...	[ "Mrs. Touchett, before arriving in Paris, had fixed the day for her\ndeparture and by the middle of February had begun to travel southward.\nShe interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo,\non the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull,\nbright winter beneath a slow-mov...
4,656	2833_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In May of the same year, six months after Mr. Touchett died, a man, his fifteen year old daughter, and two nuns are in one of the rooms of an Italian villa outside the gate of Florence. The house is like many of the ancient villas in Florence. It seems to wear a mask, so one cant see what it is like from the outside. T...	[ "On one of the first days of May, some six months after old Mr. Touchett's death, a small group that might have been described by a painter as composing well was gathered in one of the many rooms of an ancient villa crowning an olive-muffled hill outside of the Roman gate of Florence. The villa was a long, rather b...
4,657	2833_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Merle has come to Florence at the invitation of Mrs. Touchett to spend a month with her at her house, the Palazzo Crescentini. She speaks to Isabel again about Gilbert Osmond, telling her that he is one of the greatest men in Europe. Isabel spends her mornings with Ralph, who enjoys taking her through the great ...	[ "Madame Merle, who had come to Florence on Mrs. Touchett's arrival at\nthe invitation of this lady--Mrs. Touchett offering her for a month the\nhospitality of Palazzo Crescentini--the judicious Madame Merle spoke to\nIsabel afresh about Gilbert Osmond and expressed the hope she might know\nhim; making, however, no ...
4,658	2833_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel and Madame Merle ride out to Gilbert Osmonds hill-top house one afternoon. In looking at the house, one saw that there was something "grave and strong in ; it looked somehow as if, once you were in, you would need an act of energy to get out." Isabel, however, isnt at all interested in getting out. She goes insi...	[ "It would certainly have been hard to see what injury could arise to\nher from the visit she presently paid to Mr. Osmond's hill-top. Nothing\ncould have been more charming than this occasion--a soft afternoon in\nthe full maturity of the Tuscan spring. The companions drove out of the\nRoman Gate, beneath the enorm...
4,659	2833_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Osmond and Isabel are chatting, Madame Merle and the Countess Gemini sit silently. Then the Countess starts up agitation, telling Madame Merle that she plans to interfere in her plan to get Isabel to marry her brother. She says she likes Isabel and wants to save her from their scheme. Madame Merle tells her she is r...	[ "While this sufficiently intimate colloquy (prolonged for some time after\nwe cease to follow it) went forward Madame Merle and her companion,\nbreaking a silence of some duration, had begun to exchange remarks.\nThey were sitting in an attitude of unexpressed expectancy; an attitude\nespecially marked on the part ...
4,660	2833_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Gilbert Osmond comes to the Palazzo Crescentini five times. Mrs. Touchett realizes he has never come more than twice in a single year and that since he cant possibly be interested in Madame Merle, he must be interested in Isabel. She asks Ralph about it and he says it is sure that Gilbert Osmond is interested in Isabel...	[ "Gilbert Osmond came to see Isabel again; that is he came to Palazzo\nCrescentini. He had other friends there as well, and to Mrs. Touchett\nand Madame Merle he was always impartially civil; but the former of\nthese ladies noted the fact that in the course of a fortnight he\ncalled five times, and compared it with ...
4,661	2833_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel loves Rome and has a very happy time exploring it with her friends. One day, Isabel sits down to rest alone and is met by Lord Warburton, just returned from a six month journey to the east. His looks very handsome and English. He tells her he has written to her many times but has never sent the letters. He tells...	[ "I may not attempt to report in its fulness our young woman's response\nto the deep appeal of Rome, to analyse her feelings as she trod the\npavement of the Forum or to number her pulsations as she crossed the\nthreshold of Saint Peter's. It is enough to say that her impression was\nsuch as might have been expected...
4,662	2833_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	VOLUME 2 Chapter 28 The next evening Lord Warburton goes to the opera where he looks for Isabel and the others. He sees Isabel sitting in the opera box with Gilbert Osmond and feels sick at the sight. He meets Ralph on the stairs. Ralph looks dejected and tells him he feels very low. He stays only a short time with the...	[ "On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his\nfriends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they\nhad gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying\nthem a visit in their box after the easy Italian fashion; and when\nhe had obtained his admittance--it w...
4,663	2833_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph Touchett has to admit that Gilbert Osmond is a delightful companion. Everyone is delighted with him. For his part, Gilbert Osmond is happy with everything about Isabel archer but one thing. He doesnt like her eagerness and enthusiasm in praising things they see. He feels that if it werent for this fault, "she wou...	[ "Ralph Touchett, in talk with his excellent friend, had rather markedly\nqualified, as we know, his recognition of Gilbert Osmond's personal\nmerits; but he might really have felt himself illiberal in the light of\nthat gentleman's conduct during the rest of the visit to Rome. Osmond\nspent a portion of each day wi...
4,664	2833_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel returns to Florence along with Ralph. She is to stay in Florence for three days before leaving with her aunt. She speaks to Madame Merle of her promise to visit Gilbert Osmonds daughter. Madame Merle says she too wants to visit her. Isabel is disappointed since she wanted to make "her small pilgrimage" in solitu...	[ "She returned on the morrow to Florence, under her cousin's escort, and\nRalph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought\nvery well of the successive hours passed in the train that hurried\nhis companion away from the city now distinguished by Gilbert Osmond's\npreference--hours that were t...
4,665	2833_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel comes back to Florence, but only a year later. During that year, she spends five months with her sister Lily and Lilys children and, briefly, Lilys husband. Lily finds herself disappointed in what Isabel has done with herself all this time. Lily was expecting to find Isabel the center of social life in Europe an...	[ "Isabel came back to Florence, but only after several months; an interval\nsufficiently replete with incident. It is not, however, during this\ninterval that we are closely concerned with her; our attention is\nengaged again on a certain day in the late spring-time, shortly after\nher return to Palazzo Crescentini ...
4,666	2833_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel is waiting for Caspar Goodwood. She feels older after her travels, as if in some sense she is "worth more." She has been dreading the scene she expects with Caspar Goodwood. He comes in "straight, strong, and hard." He tells her he came as soon as he got her letter telling him she was engaged to marry Gilbert Os...	[ "It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood\nat the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any\nof the matters I have rapidly sketched. She was not turned to the past,\nbut to the immediate, impending hour. She had reason to expect a scene,\nand she was not fond of...
4,667	2833_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After finishing crying, Isabel goes to tell her aunt of her engagement with Gilbert Osmond. Mrs. Touchett has guessed it. She immediately realizes she has been deceived by Madame Merle who promised to help prevent the engagement thereby keeping Mrs. Touchett from action. Mrs. Touchett says she might not have acted to p...	[ "Her fit of weeping, however, was soon smothered, and the signs of it had\nvanished when, an hour later, she broke the news to her aunt. I use this\nexpression because she had been sure Mrs. Touchett would not be pleased;\nIsabel had only waited to tell her till she had seen Mr. Goodwood. She\nhad an odd impression...
4,668	2833_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel gets home one morning after her drive to see Gilbert Osmond and finds Ralph in the garden. He seems asleep and as she is about to leave, he opens his eyes and says he wasnt sleeping but thinking of her. He tells her hes been trying to think of how to express himself properly about her engagement. He tells her he...	[ "One morning, on her return from her drive, some half-hour before\nluncheon, she quitted her vehicle in the court of the palace and,\ninstead of ascending the great staircase, crossed the court, passed\nbeneath another archway and entered the garden. A sweeter spot at this\nmoment could not have been imagined. The ...
4,669	2833_chapter_35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel never tells Gilbert Osmond of her family and friends opposition to the marriage. She feels as if in loving him, she is forced to break all her other ties. For his part, Gilbert Osmond is elated with his success. He feels that Madame Merle has given him an enormous gift in giving him Isabel Archer. She is intelli...	[ "Isabel, when she strolled in the Cascine with her lover, felt no impulse\nto tell him how little he was approved at Palazzo Crescentini. The\ndiscreet opposition offered to her marriage by her aunt and her cousin\nmade on the whole no great impression upon her; the moral of it was\nsimply that they disliked Gilber...
4,670	2833_chapter_36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the autumn of 1876, Edward Rosier calls on Madame Merle to ask her to put in a good word for him with Gilbert Osmond. He wants to marry Pansy Osmond. He tells Madame Merle that he wants to speak to Mrs. Isabel Osmond about it also and feels that Mrs. Osmond will be a help to him. Madame Merle advises against his spe...	[ "One afternoon of the autumn of 1876, toward dusk, a young man of\npleasing appearance rang at the door of a small apartment on the third\nfloor of an old Roman house. On its being opened he enquired for Madame\nMerle; whereupon the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face\nand a lady's maid's manner, usher...
4,671	2833_chapter_37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edward Rosier enters the Osmonds house and begins looking for Pansy Osmond. He doesnt find her in the first room and goes to the next room where he finds Mr. Osmond. Mr. Osmond snubs him by offering only two fingers of his left hand when Rosier holds his hand out for a handshake. They briefly discuss their collecting. ...	[ "Pansy was not in the first of the rooms, a large apartment with a concave ceiling and walls covered with old red damask; it was here Mrs. Osmond usually sat--though she was not in her most customary place to-night--and that a circle of more especial intimates gathered about the fire. The room was flushed with subd...
4,672	2833_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edward Rosier goes to see Madame Merle the next day and is surprised that she doesnt scold him for going against her advice. She tells him to be very patient and to visit Pansy only on Thursday evenings when everyone else does. He agrees. The next Thursday he enters the Osmonds and greets Mr. Osmond who tells him he is...	[ "He went to see Madame Merle on the morrow, and to his surprise she let\nhim off rather easily. But she made him promise that he would stop\nthere till something should have been decided. Mr. Osmond had had higher\nexpectations; it was very true that as he had no intention of giving his\ndaughter a portion such exp...
4,673	2833_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph hasnt seem much of Isabel since shes been married. He realizes that the discussion he had with her when he found out she was engaged has nearly destroyed their friendship. He had attended the wedding. It was very small. Only he, Mrs. Touchett, Pansy, and Countess Gemini attended. Madame Merle sent excuses from Ro...	[ "It will probably not surprise the reflective reader that Ralph Touchett\nshould have seen less of his cousin since her marriage than he had done\nbefore that event--an event of which he took such a view as could hardly\nprove a confirmation of intimacy. He had uttered his thought, as we\nknow, and after this had h...
4,674	2833_chapter_40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Since Isabels marriage, Madame Merle has been almost constantly absent from Rome. Isabel had at first wished things were different since she wished to have Madame Merles advice about how to cope with her unhappiness. " Isabel, as she herself grew older, became acquainted with revulsions, with disgusts; there were days ...	[ "Isabel had not seen much of Madame Merle since her marriage, this lady\nhaving indulged in frequent absences from Rome. At one time she had\nspent six months in England; at another she had passed a portion of a\nwinter in Paris. She had made numerous visits to distant friends and\ngave countenance to the idea that...
4,675	2833_chapter_41	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	That evening Osmond brings the matter of Lord Warburton and Pansy up with Isabel for the first time. She is sitting alone in the drawing room. She had been there earlier with Pansy and Lord Warburton. Lord Warburton had come in earlier. Isabel says little to him because she wants to give him the chance to talk to Pansy...	[ "Osmond touched on this matter that evening for the first time; coming\nvery late into the drawing-room, where she was sitting alone. They had\nspent the evening at home, and Pansy had gone to bed; he himself had\nbeen sitting since dinner in a small apartment in which he had arranged\nhis books and which he called...
4,676	2833_chapter_42	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel didnt answer Gilbert when he spoke to her because the way he put the situation threw her into thought about it. She sits far into the night thinking over the situation shes in. She wonders if Gilbert is right, that her past with Lord Warburton has some force today. She wonders about Lord Warburtons motives for a...	[ "She had answered nothing because his words had put the situation before\nher and she was absorbed in looking at it. There was something in them\nthat suddenly made vibrations deep, so that she had been afraid to trust\nherself to speak. After he had gone she leaned back in her chair and\nclosed her eyes; and for a...
4,677	2833_chapter_43	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Three nights later, Isabel accompanies Pansy to a ball. She acts as Pansys guardian, holding her flowers for her and watching her dance. At one point when Pansy goes to dance, Edward Rosier approaches looking grim. He asks for one of Pansys flowers and after hesitating, Isabel lets him choose one. She tells him she isn...	[ "Three nights after this she took Pansy to a great party, to which\nOsmond, who never went to dances, did not accompany them. Pansy was as\nready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had\nnot extended to other pleasures the interdict she had seen placed on\nthose of love. If she was biding he...
4,678	2833_chapter_44	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The bored Countess Gemini is happily surprised with a visit from Henrietta Stackpole whom she remembered from her connection to Isabel. She has just received an invitation to visit her brother and Isabel in Rome. Since she is always eager to visit Rome and sad to be kept away from it by reason of a lack of funds, she i...	[ "The Countess Gemini was often extremely bored--bored, in her own phrase,\nto extinction. She had not been extinguished, however, and she\nstruggled bravely enough with her destiny, which had been to marry an\nunaccommodating Florentine who insisted upon living in his native town,\nwhere he enjoyed such considerati...
4,679	2833_chapter_45	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel goes to see Ralph the next day. She is very worried lately about Gilberts opposition to her seeing so much of Ralph. She sees as much of him as she can without causing Gilbert to forbid it. She knows Gilbert wants her away from Ralph because "he wished her to have no freedom of mind, and he knew perfectly well t...	[ "I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be\ndispleased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome. That knowledge\nwas very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day\nafter she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his\nsincerity; and at this moment, as at ...
4,680	2833_chapter_46	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton stays away from the Osmonds for four days. Gilbert Osmond finally asks Isabel what has happened to him. Isabel realizes that Gilbert is accusing her of being untrustworthy and he says just that. As they are talking, Lord Warburton is announced. He is clearly unhappy to find Gilbert there, but he recovers...	[ "Lord Warburton was not seen in Mrs. Osmond's drawing-room for several\ndays, and Isabel couldn't fail to observe that her husband said nothing\nto her about having received a letter from him. She couldn't fail to\nobserve, either, that Osmond was in a state of expectancy and that,\nthough it was not agreeable to h...
4,681	2833_chapter_47	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Henrietta Stackpole tells Isabel that Caspar Goodwood is in Rome. Madame Merle has left Rome for a short trip. Her departure has set Isabel thinking once again of her relationship with Gilbert. Isabel has an inkling that Madame Merle is very dangerous. She also feels such a dread at the thought that she will suddenly r...	[ "It was from Henrietta Stackpole that she learned how Caspar Goodwood had\ncome to Rome; an event that took place three days after Lord Warburton's\ndeparture. This latter fact had been preceded by an incident of some\nimportance to Isabel--the temporary absence, once again, of Madame\nMerle, who had gone to Naples...
4,682	2833_chapter_48	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the end of February, Ralph Touchett decides to leave for England. Henrietta Stackpole insists on going with him to care for him on the journey. Ralph is surprised at how pleased he is with this idea. He decides he will be "gratefully, luxuriously passive." Caspar Goodwood also comes to see him and tells him he plans...	[ "One day, toward the end of February, Ralph Touchett made up his mind to\nreturn to England. He had his own reasons for this decision, which\nhe was not bound to communicate; but Henrietta Stackpole, to whom he\nmentioned his intention, flattered herself that she guessed them. She\nforbore to express them, however;...
4,683	2833_chapter_49	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator goes back in time to the day that Madame Merle came back from Naples and saw Isabel, the incident only mentioned briefly before. On that day, after Madame Merle had asked Isabel what she had done to send Lord Warburton away, Isabel had asked her not to talk of him. Madame Merle says she cant help but talk ...	[ "Madame Merle had not made her appearance at Palazzo Roccanera on the\nevening of that Thursday of which I have narrated some of the incidents,\nand Isabel, though she observed her absence, was not surprised by it.\nThings had passed between them which added no stimulus to sociability,\nand to appreciate which we m...
4,684	2833_chapter_50	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel likes to take the Countess Gemini with her on trips around Rome because it gives her sister-in-law something other than the sexual affairs of the women in Florence as a topic of conversation. While they are at the Coliseum one day, Isabel wanders off alone while the Countess and Pansy go exploring. She is greete...	[ "As the Countess Gemini was not acquainted with the ancient monuments\nIsabel occasionally offered to introduce her to these interesting relics\nand to give their afternoon drive an antiquarian aim. The Countess, who\nprofessed to think her sister-in-law a prodigy of learning, never made\nan objection, and gazed at...
4,685	2833_chapter_51	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel gets news from Mrs. Touchett that Ralph is dying quickly. She asks Isabel to come. Isabel goes to see Gilbert to tell him of the news. Gilbert acts bored by it. Then he asks why she must go to Gardencourt. He says he was already abundantly generous with her in letting her spend so much time with Ralph in Rome wh...	[ "The Countess was not banished, but she felt the insecurity of her tenure\nof her brother's hospitality. A week after this incident Isabel received\na telegram from England, dated from Gardencourt and bearing the stamp of\nMrs. Touchett's authorship. \"Ralph cannot last many days,\" it ran, \"and\nif convenient wou...
4,686	2833_chapter_52	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Before Isabel leaves Rome, she goes to see Pansy at the convent. When she arrives, she is greeted by Madame Merle. She doesnt want to see this person, but knows she must for the sake of appearances. She realizes as she stands there that Madame Merle has sensed her knowledge. She is surprised to recognize that Madame Me...	[ "There was a train for Turin and Paris that evening; and after the\nCountess had left her Isabel had a rapid and decisive conference with\nher maid, who was discreet, devoted and active. After this she thought\n(except of her journey) only of one thing. She must go and see Pansy;\nfrom her she couldn't turn away. S...
4,687	2833_chapter_53	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel is greeted by Henrietta Stackpole at Charring Cross railway station. She remembers that five years ago she had walked from this station into the crowd with so much confidence. Now she feels overwhelmed by the mass of people and holds onto Henriettas arm for safety. When she sees Mr. Bantling, she feels relieved....	[ "It was not with surprise, it was with a feeling which in other\ncircumstances would have had much of the effect of joy, that as Isabel\ndescended from the Paris Mail at Charing Cross she stepped into the\narms, as it were--or at any rate into the hands--of Henrietta Stackpole. She had telegraphed to her friend fro...
4,688	2833_chapter_54	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel arrives at Gardencourt. The house is very quiet. She waits a long time for Mrs. Touchett to come down. She wanders through the art gallery thinking of her life. She wonders what would have come of it if Mrs. Touchett had never come to her in Albany and taken her to England. She wonders if she would have married ...	[ "Isabel's arrival at Gardencourt on this second occasion was even quieter than it had been on the first. Ralph Touchett kept but a small household, and to the new servants Mrs. Osmond was a stranger; so that instead of being conducted to her own apartment she was coldly shown into the drawing-room and left to wait ...
4,689	2833_chapter_55	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel remembers that when she first came to Gardencourt, she asked Ralph to show her its ghost. He had told her that she would have to suffer before she could see the ghost. On this night, she finally sees it. She has been in bed, half asleep, but fully clothed, because shes expected Ralph to die during the night. Sud...	[ "He had told her, the first evening she ever spent at Gardencourt, that\nif she should live to suffer enough she might some day see the ghost\nwith which the old house was duly provided. She apparently had fulfilled\nthe necessary condition; for the next morning, in the cold, faint\ndawn, she knew that a spirit was...
4,731	16328_1-98	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Beowulf begins with the legends of the warrior kings of the Danes. The most famous was Shield Sheafson, the founder of the ruling house. He was revered by his own subjects, and outlying clans were forced to pay tribute to him. Shield had a son named Beow, who became famous throughout the region for his exploits. Shield...	[ "THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SCYLD.", "{The famous race of Spear-Danes.}", "Lo! the Spear-Danes' glory through splendid achievements\n The folk-kings' former fame we have heard of,\n How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle.", "{Scyld, their mighty king, in honor of whom they are often c...

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