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It was an auspicious circumstance for Ormond's love that Florence had now a daily object of thought and feeling in common with him. Mrs. M'Crule's having piqued Florence was in Ormond's favour: it awakened her pride, and conquered her timidity; she ventured to trust her own motives.
She little thought that, while she was thus pursuing the dictates of her own hate, she might serve the interests of Ormond's love. When Ormond returned, in obedience to Mrs. M'Crule's summons, he found in the room an unusual assemblage of persons a party of morning visitors, the unmuffled contents of the car.
M'Crule's attention, by asking her to partake of some excellent goose-pie, which just then made its entrance. This promised, for a time, to suspend the discussion, and to unite all parties in one common sympathy. When Florence saw that the consomme, to which she delicately helped her, was not thrown away upon Mrs.
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