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The Hand But Not the Heart

CHAPTER XI
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That she was superior to him mentally, Mr.Dexter was not long in discovering.
Very rapidly did her mind, quickened by a never-dying pain, spring forward towards its culmination.

Of its rapid growth in power and acuteness, he only had evidence when he listened to her in conversation with men and women of large acquirements and polished tastes.

Alone with him, her mind seemed to grow duller every day; and if he applied the spur, it was only to produce a start, not a movement onwards.
Alas for Leon Dexter! He had caged his beautiful bird; but her song had lost, already, its ravishing sweetness..


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