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AN AWAKENING FOR BOTH.
Renee was downcast.

Had she not coquetted?
The dear young Englishman had reduced her to defend herself, the which fair ladies, like besieged garrisons, cannot always do successfully without an attack at times, which, when the pursuer is ardent, is followed by a retreat, which is a provocation; and these things are coquettry.

Her still fresh convent-conscience accused her of it pitilessly.

She could not forgive her brother, and yet she dared not reproach him, for that would have inculpated Nevil.