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I cannot like her; yet I want to admire her she is so good. 'Let her be as good as she pleases; why should she be silly? 'Oh! she is very clever. 'When good and clever people are silly, they are the biggest simpletons of all. 'Then I don't think I quite know what you mean by silliness. 'Not turning one's sense to the best advantage, I suppose, said Theodora. 'That Miss Marstone provokes me.
She dreaded that Miss Marstone was unsettled in her allegiance to her Church, and that her power over Emma was infusing into her her own doubts. 'It is very sad very strange! I cannot understand it, said Theodora. 'I had always believed that such innocence and lowliness as Emma and Violet have was a guard against all snares; yet here is Emma led astray by these very excellences!
'I did not know you were acquainted with either of our guests. 'Miss Brandon is a near neighbour of my father, and a great friend of Mrs. Martindale. Death to any incipient scheme of Miss Marstone; but she smiled on, and remarked, 'A very amiable girl, and a beautiful place, is it not, Rickworth?
Who is that chattering in John's ear? 'Miss Marstone, a friend of Miss Brandon's. 'What makes her go about such a figure? 'She is very good. 'I trust, by your own practice, that is not your test of goodness? 'I should not think it was, said Violet, blushing and hesitating. 'What crypt did they dig her out of? Is she one of the Marstones of Gothlands? 'I believe she is.
Remember, in the conventual system, a girl cannot be a novice till she has had six months in which to see the world. It was right that you should count the cost. Besides, society in moderation is the best way to keep one's mind from growing narrow. Well, then, you met Miss Marstone, and she excited your imagination.
I am afraid he is leading them farther than Theresa Marstone herself would have gone. 'Oh, then, he cannot be the same person. I meant a very different style of man, a cousin to those Miss Gardners who used to be friends of Theodora. 'Ah! I meant to ask you about Miss Gardner and Percival Fotheringham. What! you have not heard? 'No, nothing. What do you mean? 'Married. 'Married! No, never!
Mistaken though that party was, it was hard measure, she thought, utterly to condemn a girl hardly eighteen. She could understand Violet she could not understand Miss Marstone; and the ruling domineering nature that laid down the law frightened her.
Miss Marstone was sallow, with thin sharply-cut features, her eyes peered out from spectacles, her hair was disposed in the plainest manner, as well as her dress, which was anything but suited to a large dinner-party. Violet's first impulse was to be afraid of her, but to admire Emma for being attracted by worth through so much formidable singularity.
Miss Marstone had swept away the veil that used to shroud them in the deepest recess of Emma's mind, and to Violet it seemed as if they were losing their gloss by being produced whenever the friends wanted something to talk about.
If Emma would have shared her griefs with her, and admitted her attempts at consolation, she would have been more at ease, but as it was, Emma was reserved with her, and attached herself solely to Theresa Marstone, whom she even made a sort of interpreter between her and her mother, so that Lady Elizabeth only knew as much of her mind as her confidante chose to communicate.
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