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subjects its former she inanit was y even . Not guilt that y of Eup commencing heinia introduced withthe any weather very deep but *
, , , a everything life in it * . in She her could hands not seemed helit to but lead her to mind something was so else store , to d nave that p
, , something one thing else played to illustrate into another itor , nothing to succeed stood in the alone chain , but of suggested thought
Yet the great idea she gave was , that of youth of mind , and sim- . plicity was what Mortimer ehieny remarked in her .
" You are very much changed , Miss Selby , " was his unconscious tions and abrupt of this remark kind . , in the course of the evening , after some
cogitafluttered _" Am in I ? " ite rep of lied her Eup firm hemia resolution smiling to " meet , but the inwardl love of y her a little life sp
, comp henceforward limentary as , Mr an . Mortimer acquaintance , but onl I y forg . " ive Am you I ? for you the are sake sadl of y un the
truth , it is so terribly true ! Yet remember , for the sake of poor and vain it womanhood would not , be that human it is not some to be ten changed years in since ten I saw . " you last ,
years bravel * ' Miss y if Selb I had y , meant I beg any your thing pardon so , rude I would —there stand is b much y my of speech the
excellent martyr in me— -but I really cannot die for what was never in my thoughts ; I meant that you are much changed in character
. When you know me better , you will find I am always saying one thing " , and meaning another . "
" I trust then , for the sake of easy translation , Mr . Mortimer , that white you always , and say ¦ white the for direct black opposite any intermediate of your real shades thought would , black be for so
, puzzling you know . But , however , even iii character , I feel that I am very much changed since we met here . I think I am more
silly and merry , not always so much in earnest , and I am sure I can put up with more folly in other people now than then . When
I was young , I was very intolerant of anything short of my own pattern principles ; a whig , a protestant of my own color , Sir
Walter Scott ' s novels , and Tennyson . —I spare you all my list , though I dare say I took in my favorite color , blue , and tied a person down
as to his very form of speech ! But , now that I have attained to age , I find this immunity with itthat one can enjand
understand all sidesand discover that intellect , is onlone oy kind of companionship . There , may be very charming foll y y after all . Good
hearts are better than correct heads , and even a silly novel can amuse . " " A silly novel ! " exclaimed Julia , " I would only read what is
good when I did read !" " So would I , my dear Julia , whenever I can get itbelieve me I
am not yet quite so much in my dotage as that , but good * and clever novels are not born every day , alas ! I often think of Crabbe
who , his son tells us , could read second-rate novels so that they were interesting to all who heard them . Oh , how invaluable he
must have been for a country library ! "
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/40/
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