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This book’s author adapted it into a stage play that inserts the character of Madame de Katkoff and adds a happy ending in which the two leads marry. This work’s title character tells the protagonist, “I prefer weak tea!” over his advice after they discuss flirting. A girl in this work refuses to get into a carriage with her love interest and his aunt because she sees them as “stiff.” Mrs. Costello (10[1])sniffs at the idea that this novella’s protagonist rowed over to the Castle of Chillon alone with a girl he first meets in Vevey, Switzerland. This novella’s title character, (-5[1])a native of Schenectady, New York, (10[1])is caught by the protagonist on a date with Giovanelli in the Colosseum. For 10 points, Winterbourne romances the title American girl before she dies of Roman fever in what novella by Henry (10[1])James? ■END■ (0[1])

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<Berkeley A, American Literature>
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