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Yet whatever the value of taciturnity to a ers, it is

apt to expressfriends

The countryes in

external nature sees a thousand successive tints and traits in the

landscape which are never discerned by hiular chime

of a clock, because they are never in request In like manner do we

use our eyes on our taciturn comrade The infinitesimal movement of

muscle, curve, hair, and wrinkle, which when accoarded, is watched and translated in the lack of it, till

virtually the whole surrounding circle of fas

This was the condition of affairs between Winterborne and his neighbors

after his stroke of ill-luck He held his tongue; and they observed

him, and knew that he was discoht hter Had Winterborne been going on in the

old fashion, Grace's father could have alluded to his disapproval of

the alliance every day with the greatest frankness; but to speak any

further on the subject he could not find it in his heart to do now He

hoped that Giles would of his own accord make some final announcement

that he entirely withdrew his pretensions to Grace, and so get the