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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER XII
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They are in counsel and fellowship with the quickened heart and brain.

The whole sweet system moves to music.
Something akin to the indications of a change in the spirit of his son, which were now seen, Sir Austin had marked down to be expected, as due to his plan.

The blushes of the youth, his long vigils, his clinging to solitude, his abstraction, and downcast but not melancholy air, were matters for rejoicing to the prescient gentleman.

"For it comes," said he to Dr.Clifford of Lobourne, after consulting him medically on the youth's behalf and being assured of his soundness, "it comes of a thoroughly sane condition.

The blood is healthy, the mind virtuous: neither instigates the other to evil, and both are perfecting toward the flower of manhood.


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