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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER VI
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I only know that Dinah came in and out with hot cakes and that Jane put honey on them and gave them to me with smiles and kind words.

It was all wonderful! If I had been dreaming, I might have felt just as much out of the body." "Jane can be very charming, I know that, John." "She was something better than charming, mother; she was kind and just a little quiet.

If she had been laughing and noisy and in one of her merry moods, it would not have been half so enchanting.

It was her sweet sedateness that gave sureness and reality to the whole affair.
"We left Harlow House just as the hunting-moon was rising.

Its full yellow splendor was over everything, and Jane looked almost spiritual in its transfiguring light.


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