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"It isn't a very important matter still, it would be pleasanter to us, and I dare say you won't mind trying to remember it?" "'M! No I ain't partic'ler. Faith ain't a long name, and 'twon't be much trouble to put a handle on, if that's what you want. It's English fashion, ain't it?" Parthenia's coolness enabled Mrs. Gartney to assert, somewhat more confidently, her own dignity.
The lighter phases of Parthenia's nature were, as they should be, kept generally prominent, but when the demand came for stronger and tenser emotions the actress was always able to respond to it as for instance in Parthenia's defiance of Ingomar, when his love finds its first uncouth utterance, in her bitter anguish when she thinks he has left her forever, and in her final avowal of love and devotion.
As to Faith, her mother ventured one day, sensitively and timidly, to speak directly to the point. "My daughter has always been accustomed to be called Miss Faith," she said, gently, in reply to an observation of Parthenia's, in which the ungarnished name had twice been used.
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