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LEADS TO A SMALL SKIRMISH BETWEEN ROSE AND EVAN.
Lady Jocelyn belonged properly to that order which the Sultans and the Roxalanas of earth combine to exclude from their little games, under the designation of blues, or strong-minded women: a kind, if genuine, the least dangerous and staunchest of the sex, as poor fellows learn when the flippant and the frail fair have made mummies of them.

She had the frankness of her daughter, the same direct eyes and firm step: a face without shadows, though no longer bright with youth.

It may be charged to her as one of the errors of her strong mind, that she believed friendship practicable between men and women, young or old.

She knew the world pretty well, and was not amazed by extraordinary accidents; but as she herself continued to be an example of her faith: we must presume it natural that her delusion should cling to her.