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Stella Fregelius

CHAPTER XXIV
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It might be told how in that spiritual atmosphere, shedding its sleepy indolence, her own spirit awoke and grew conscious and far-seeing, till impressions and hints which in the old days she would have set aside as idle, became for her pregnant with light and meaning.
Then at last her eyes were opened, and understanding much and guessing more she began to watch.

The attitude of the Colonel also could be studied, and how he grew first suspicious, then sarcastic, and at last thoroughly alarmed, even to his ultimate evacuation of the Abbey House, detailed at length.
But to the chronicler of these doings and of their unusual issues at any rate, it appears best to resist a natural temptation; to deny the desire to paint such closing scenes in petto.

Much more does this certainty hold of their explanation.

Enough has been said to enable those in whom the spark of understanding may burn, to discover by its light how much is left unsaid.

Enough has been hinted at to teach how much there is still to guess.


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