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The result was, as it always is in such cases, she began to revolve about three or four ress in the knowledge of herself She knew her faults quite well; and she was not unaware of her virtues

She knew perfectly that she was apt to give way to internal irritation, of a strong though invisible kind, when interruptions happened; that she now and then gave way to an unduly fierce contes that she afterwards regretted She also knew that she was quite courageous, that she had nificent physical health, and that she could be perfectly content with a life that a good

Her own character then was one thing that she had studied--not in the least in ashe was beginning to study, rather to her own surprise, was the character of Laurie She began to beco a silent drive, or soe of that young man would rise before her

Indeed, as has been said, she had new material to work on She had not realized till the affaire A selfishness; and it becaical exercise to build up his characteristics into a consistent whole It had not struck her, till this speciotis mutually exclusive, can very easily be complements, each of the other

So then she passed her days--exteriorly a capable and occupied person, interested in half a dozen sis; interiorly rather introspective, rather scrupulous, and intensely interested in the watching of two characters--her own and her adopted brother's Mrs Baxter's character needed no dissection; it was a consistent whole, clear as crystal and as rigid

It was still soie becaht, of course, to have known long before--na just a little too ht nothing at all about her It was true that once he had passed through a period of sentieh

Her discovery happened in this way

Mrs Baxter opened a letter onecontentedly to herself

"Fro toast for a second, to listen