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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...But it was not that so much which was occupying her thoughts. It was the strange consciousness that the sting of all that was gone; that it did not affect her as it had then done; and that she was somehow or other independent of it. Those old regrets, she realized, seldom assailed her now. She enjoyed, she hardly knew why or how, a new and restful sense of giving entire satisfaction. Some one, at any rate, seemed to approve of her; seemed to care to talk to her, to know what she felt and thought, and to listen to what"she said with a certain appreciation and respectful interest and attention, which was as novel as it was encouraging and delightful. And this now not only in their walks together, but in general society and general conversation. She felt in his presence what can only be described as a sense of security. She could not tell how, but any topic she started he managed to prolong, and contrived somehow that it should appear that it was she, and not himself, who was the person worth listening to. In some covert way, he protected her, and averted anything that was discouraging. Owing to their tUe-a-tHe talks, he began to know her mind and opinions well enough to turn to her for sympathy, or corroboration in what he was saying. He drew her out and led her on to talk; and he succeeded so well in his efforts, that she was getting perfectly at her ease, even in the presence of her mother, though at first it had been only so when the latter was absent. How did he do it? and what did he do? She asked herself these questions sometimes as she sat in her room and thought about it. But she had come to the conclusion that she did not know, and she did not care to know. All she knew, and all she wished to know, was that he did it, and that...