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Nevertheless, the greeting on her looks and lips was of a restrained

type, which perhaps was not unnatural For true it was that Giles

Winterborne, well-attired and well-h beside her It had so silence at Little Hintock, that external phenoht or color of a hat, the fold of a coat, the

make of a boot, or the chance attitude or occupation of a lireat influence upon feminine opinion of a

man's worth--so frequently founded on non-essentials; but a certain

causticity of eneral had

prevented to-day, as always, any enthusiastic action on the strength of

that reflection; and her ht

of hiave away the tree to a by-stander, as soon as he could find one who

would accept the cuift, and the twain moved on towards the

inn at which he had put up Marty nized by Miss Melbury; but abruptly checking

herself, she glided behind a carrier's van, saying, dryly, "No; I baint

wanted there," and critically regarded Winterborne's companion

It would have been very difficult to describe Grace Melbury with

precision, either now or at any tihest point of

view, to precisely describe a hu, the focus of a universe--how

impossible! But, apart from transcendentalism, there never probably

lived a person as in herself more completely a reductio ad

absurdum of attempts to appraise a wo generally, it may be said that she was