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A Young Girl’s Wooing

CHAPTER XV
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What though she moved in quiet, well-bred grace, and greeted Mr.Muir with natural cordiality?
The aroused spiritual element was not wanting in the expression of her face or in the dignity of her carriage.

Her deep, suppressed feeling, which bordered on despair; her womanly pride, which would disguise all suffering at every cost, gave to her presence a subtle power, felt none the less because intangible.

It was evident that she neither saw nor cared for the strangers who were looking their curiosity and admiration; and Graydon understood her barely well enough to think, "Something, whatever it may be, makes her unlike other girls.

She was languidly indifferent at dinner; now she is superbly indifferent.

This morning and yesterday she was a gay young girl, eager for a mountain scramble or a frolic of any kind.


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