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The American

CHAPTER VIII
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She is not too anything! If I were to say she was ugly, I should not mean she was too ugly.

She is fond of pleasing, and if you are pleased she is grateful.

If you are not pleased, she lets it pass and thinks the worst neither of you nor of herself.

I imagine, though, she hopes the saints in heaven are, for I am sure she is incapable of trying to please by any means of which they would disapprove." "Is she grave or gay ?" asked Newman.
"She is both; not alternately, for she is always the same.

There is gravity in her gayety, and gayety in her gravity.


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