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It was at that time that she had the first intimation of a great change in her life, and since the one or two obscure and futile revolts of her girlhood, nothing had moved her to more rebellious unresignation than the fact that her life left her no time to take in the significance of what was coming to her. "Oh, my dear!
"My husband is like all other American men," cried Lydia sharply, touched to the quick by this reference. "It is because he is that I " She broke off with her gesture of passionate unresignation to her lack of fluency. Already the heat of the impulse that had carried her into speech was dying away. She began to hesitate for words. "Oh, I can't say what I mean you must know it, anyhow!
"Mean? Mean nothing! Didn't you ever know an engaged girl before?" "Well, I'm sure when I was engaged I never " "Oh, yes, you did; you must have. They all do. It's nerves." But a moment later she contradicted her own assurance with a sigh of unresignation. "Oh, dear! why can't Lydia be just bright and wholesome and fun-loving and natural like Madeleine Hollister!"
It would be delicious to get off her corset and shoes, let down her hair there he was, bolt upright before the fire, his back to the door. She took in the significance of his tense attitude and prepared herself for the worst, sinking into a chair, letting her bundles slide at various tangents from her rounded surface, and surveying her brother with the utmost unresignation.
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