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In the bustling corners of Florence, a young woman named Isabel Archer was embarking on an epoch of self-discovery. Having inherited a fortune, she found herself unchained from the constraints of her earlier life, burdened no more by the expectation of marriage. She was a woman with the freedom of choice that few of her time possessed. This newfound affluence, however, brought with it the insidious lure of exploitation.

In the quiet town of Woollett, strewn with the dust of an old nostalgia and the vibrancy of modern society, lived a gentleman of quiet disposition, Mr. Albert Rowland. He was a friend of Lambert Strether, the protagonist from 'The Ambassadors' penned by Henry James. The two men, acquainted well, shared intriguing tales of their lives.