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She remembered him perfectly now, and she realized that the nimble-witted clerk had meant to send her to a gentleman. "I thought," she faltered, "I thought I was coming to a a stranger. They gave me your address at the hotel when I asked for a lawyer." "Perhaps," suggested Mr. Wentworth, delicately, "perhaps you would prefer to go to some one else.
Nor were his opportunities for the study of character so meagre as the limit of one family would imply. As often happens in New England households, individualities were very marked, and from his stern uncle and his placid aunt down to the sweet and nimble-witted Alice, the family had developed traits and even eccentricities enough to make it a sort of microcosm of life.
The author of "The New Priest in Conception Bay," we surmise, has not been in the habit of packing up his thoughts for the market, by either writing for the press, or conversing with clever and nimble-witted men and women, and thus does not always distinguish between cargo and dunnage. The current of the story often flows with a very languid movement.
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