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Emily Fox-Seton

CHAPTER Twenty two
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The Warrens, who understood the dignity and meaning of mere worldly facts her nature did not grasp, added subtly to her support.

Gradually she learned to reveal herself in simple talk to Mrs.Warren, who found her, when so revealed, a case more extraordinary than she had been when enshrouded in dubious mystery.
"She is absolutely delicious," Mrs.Warren said to her husband.

"That an adoration such as hers could exist in the nineteenth century is--" "Almost degenerate," he laughed.
"Perhaps it is regenerate," reflecting.

"Who knows! Nothing earthly, or heavenly, would induce me to cast a doubt upon it.

Seated opposite to a portrait of her James, I hear her opinions of him, when she is not in the least aware of what her simplest observation conveys.


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