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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER IX
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Roderick was at this time doing his part superbly, and Miss Garland's brow was serene.

It was serene now, twenty-four hours later; but nevertheless, her alarm had lasted an appreciable moment.
What had become of it?
It had dropped down deep into her memory, and it was lying there for the present in the shade.

But with another week, Rowland said to himself, it would leap erect again; the lightest friction would strike a spark from it.

Rowland thought he had schooled himself to face the issue of Mary Garland's advent, casting it even in a tragical phase; but in her personal presence--in which he found a poignant mixture of the familiar and the strange--he seemed to face it and all that it might bring with it for the first time.

In vulgar parlance, he stood uneasy in his shoes.


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