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"That is because they have no perspective in their brains Rachel

understands reat deal too well to make me explain what is better

unspoken"

"You knohat I think, Alick, that you are the strictest judge that

ever a irl had"

"I had rather you continued to think so, uncle; I should like to think

so ht, but whether or not Rachel entered into histo the bazaar with his sister, being

absolutely certain that he would not have done so if he could have

helped it

Nor was her day at all dreary; Mr Clare wasoppressive, and she knew she was useful to him She

was indeed so full of admiration and reverence for him, that once

or twice it crossed her whether she were not belying another of her

principles by lapsing into Curatocult, but the idea passed aith

scorn at the notion of co Mr Clare with the objects of such

devotion He belonged to that generation which gave its choicest in

intellectual, as well as in religious gifts to thedown, before disappointment and suspicion had thinned the

ranks, and hurled back ht