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Franklin Kane

CHAPTER X
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Even to others her charms became more apparent, as, indeed, they were more actual.

To be loved and to live in the presence of the adorer is the most beautifying of circumstances.
Althea bloomed under it.

Her eyes became larger, sweeter, sadder; her lips softer; the mild fever of her indecision and of her sense of power burned dimly in her cheeks.

As the centre of watchfulness she gained the grace of self-confidence.
Aunt Julia, observant and shrewd, smiled with half-ironic satisfaction.
She had felt sure that Althea must come to this, and 'this,' she considered as on the whole fortunate for Althea.

Anything, Aunt Julia thought, was better than to become a wandering old maid, and she had, moreover, the highest respect for Franklin Winslow Kane.


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