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The others looked at her doubtfully

"Don't you think I have studied her? She has been a bald revelation to

s I have only half understood in better-bred woround to a garden and grown more

luxuriant in her weediness Do you knohat I think? I believe that

when the last judgment shall strip her of her sweet pink flesh, there

will be nothing found inside but a little dry kernel, too hard to bite,

and labeled 'self'"

"You are positively vicious, Vera," said her husband gravely

The tears came to her eyes as she turned to hi him"

"But all this does not explain her hatred for Madeline"

"Do you not understand that even petty people can see how dreary and

stupid their lives are when a person like Madeline coood of you to consider row, and to try to

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home I hope that my father and mother will never hear of this"

"Why should they?" said Mr Lenox "It's only a trifle after all,

though, to be true to her nature, Vera must needs philosophize about it

It's only a trifle"