It was jolly to know you were really fond of me--but youthful sisters grow faster than you imagine.

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And now, when you come, I shall venture to believe it is not wholly to do me a kindness--but--a little--to do yourself one, too.
Is that not the basis of friendship ?" "Yes." "Community and equality of interests ?--isn't it ?" "Yes." "-- And--in which the--the charity of superior experience and the inattention of intellectual preoccupation and the amused concession to ignorance must steadily, if gradually, disappear?
Is that it, too ?" Astonishment and chagrin at his misconception of her gave place to outright laughter at his own expense.
"Where on earth did you--I mean that I am quite overwhelmed under your cutting indictment of me.