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She knew it to be true, that he had told her and must have told her. But for herself it had been so improbable that he had not known of her engagement! And then there had been no opportunity, no fitting opportunity. She knew that she had been wrong, foolish, ill-judging; but there had been nothing of that premeditated secrecy, that secrecy with a cause, of which he had hinted that she was guilty.
Now as we know it is nearness which gives size and bulk to any object, it was not wonderful that these ill-judging pilgrims were more struck with these baubles and trifles, which by laying close at hand, were visible and tempting to the naked eye, and which made up the sum of the things below, than with the remote glories of the things above; but this was chiefly owing to their not making use of the telescope, through which, if you examined thoroughly the things below, they seemed to shrink almost down to nothing, which was indeed their real size: while the things above appeared the more beautiful and vast, the more the telescope was used.
Anne had never submitted more reluctantly to the jealous and ill-judging claims of Mary; but so it must be, and they set off for the town, Charles taking care of his sister, and Captain Benwick attending to her. She gave a moment's recollection, as they hurried along, to the little circumstances which the same spots had witnessed earlier in the morning.
These men whom I see around me what are they? the mass of them unfeeling and silken egotists ill-judging, ill-educated, well-dressed: the few who are called distinguished how selfish in their ambition, how passionless in their pursuits! Am I to be blamed if I sometimes exert a power over such as these, which rather proves my scorn of them than my own vanity?" "I have no right to argue with you."
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