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Updated: June 21, 2025
But he had many of the faults of his race, for with fine insight and ability to forecast events, he fell short in the execution of his brave schemes; failed to keep the respect of others after he had won it; accepted insufficient proof on all subjects, relying dangerously on a much-vaunted intuition, a fault in him which changed Katrine's whole life.
Things seemed so much as he desired them to be the roses, the old furniture, the spinning-wheel, the coiffed peasant woman that he waited for Katrine's coming, fearing that she should be less beautiful than he remembered her. She was more loveworthy, more imperious, than he remembered her, a thing which bewildered him as he thought of her entreating smile, and her wistful and approving eyes.
Lady Katrine's last satisfaction was the hard haughty look with which she took leave of Miss Stanley a look expressing, as well as the bitter smile and cold form of good breeding could express it, unconquered, unconquerable hate.
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