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loveliness), but not affected; liberal-handed; innocent of the pride
of wealth; ingenuous; sufficiently intelligent; gay, lively, and
unthinking: she was very charming, in short, even to a cool observer
of her own sex like me; but she was not profoundly interesting or
thoroughly impressive. A very different sort of mind was hers from
that, for instance, of the sisters of St. John. Still, I liked her
almost as I liked my pupil Adele; except that, for a child whom we
have watched over and taught, a closer affection is engendered than we
can give an equally attractive adult acquaintance.
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She had taken an amiable caprice to me. She said I was like Mr.
Rivers, only, certainly, she allowed, 'not one-tenth so handsome,
though I was a nice neat little soul enough, but he was an angel.' I
was, however, good, clever, composed, and firm, like him. I was a
lusus naturae, she affirmed, as a village schoolmistress: she was sure
my previous history, if known, would make a delightful romance.
One evening, while, with her usual child-like activity, and
thoughtless yet not offensive inquisitiveness, she was rummaging the
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