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"It used to be," she said, passing one hand across her forehead, as if in an effort of memory "it used to be Verrone Christine Verrone, but I am not that happy-hearted girl the nuns used to call by that name. This is not Christine Verrone. The very flesh and blood and bones of this body are different and surely in this mind and heart and soul there is no tinge nor remnant of that old Christine.
There was an infinite proud calm in her voice, and in the same tone she went on: "I bore throughout my childhood and my young girl days another name that seems in no sense to belong to me now. That child and girl, Christine Verrone, is not in any way myself. It seems only a sweet memory of a dear young creature, nearer akin to the birds, and the winds, and the flowers than to me.
So he merely soothed and comforted her, and told her things should be as she chose, and then he tied her bonnet under her chin as if she had been a little girl, gave her her gloves, lowered the veil before her face and asked her if she were ready. "You will take your sweet girl-name," he said, "and be known as Mrs. Verrone. Only Mrs.
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