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Villette

CHAPTER XI
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A calamity had come upon her.

That hag Disappointment was greeting her with a grisly "All-hail," and her soul rejected the intimacy.
But Rosine! My bewilderment there surpasses description.

I embraced five opportunities of passing her cabinet that day, with a view to contemplating her charms, and finding out the secret of their influence.

She was pretty, young, and wore a well-made dress.

All very good points, and, I suppose, amply sufficient to account, in any philosophic mind, for any amount of agony and distraction in a young man, like Dr.John.Still, I could not help forming half a wish that the said doctor were my brother; or at least that he had a sister or a mother who would kindly sermonize him.


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