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What a man finds he can do on one day, he finds he can't do on another. Try to understand that a change does sometimes come over one's feelings." "Bless my soul, Mr. Philip, that's just what I have been understanding all the time! I know your mind as well as you know it yourself. You can't forget my sweet Euneece." "I tell you I tried to forget her!
I'm really afraid I shall be led into doing it, if she goes on persuading me much longer." I commended Maria for feeling scruples which proved her to be the best of good girls, and promised to relieve her from all fear of future temptation. This was easily done. Euneece kept the key of Philip's door in her pocket; and I kept the key of the dining-room door in mine.
"Can I see Philip?" she asked. I have heard some insolent men say that women are like cats. If they mean that we do, figuratively speaking, scratch at times, I am afraid they are not altogether wrong. An irresistible impulse made me say to poor Euneece: "This is a change indeed, since you refused to receive Philip." "Is there no change in the circumstances?" she asked sadly.
Haven't I shown you Eunice's reply to my letter? You can't have forgotten it already?" "Oh, yes, I have. Why should I remember it? Don't I know poor Euneece was in your mind, all the time?" "You're wrong again! Eunice was not in my mind all the time. I was hurt I was offended by the cruel manner in which she had treated me. And what was the consequence?
Gracedieu's extraordinary conduct toward him puzzled us all. The mode of discovery which dear Elizabeth suggested by letter, at that time, appears to be the mode which she is following now. When I asked why, she said: 'Philip may return to Euneece; the Minister may recover and will be all the more likely to do so if he tries Massage.
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