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Working in earnest at his visitation sers of the controversy, and Mr Clare failed

not to give full ti scruples at troubling hiood for

his own purpose to unwind every tangle even if he did not use every

thread It onderful how led threads, but a sort of nebulous ation And after all, unwilling as she would have

been to own it, a woht is commonly moulded by the

masculine intellect, which, under one form or another, becomes the

master of her soul Those opinions, once made her own, ths never thought of by their

inspirer, or held with noble constancy and perseverance even when he

hi medium they are

almost always adopted, and thus, happily for herself, a woman's efforts

at scepticism are but blind faith in her chosen leader, or, at the

ut been more than

usually removed from the immediate influence of superior man, had been

affected by thethat appeared

to her the light of her independent s that, from her husband and his uncle, her character should

not receive that tincture for which it had so long waited, strong

and thorough in proportion to her nature, not rapid in receiving

i and working

on them when once accepted, a nature that Alick Keith had discerned and

valued amid its worst errors far more than mere attractiveness, of which

his sister had perhaps made him weary and distrustful Nor, indeed,

under the force of the present influences, was attractiveness wanting,

and she suited Alick's peculiarities far better thanperson would have done, and his uncle, knowing her only by her

clear mellow voice, her consideration, helpfulness, and desire to think

and do rightly, never understood the doubtful a of Alick's choice One great bond between Rachel

and Mr Clare was affection for the little babe, who continued to be

Rachel's special charge, and was a great deal dearer to her already than

all the seven Teether She studied all the books on infant

ement that she could obtain, constantly listened for his voice,

and filled her letters to her mother with questions and details on his

health, and descriptions of his slanced at his strong-minded woman's correspondence, and now and then