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Her hearts core? Do you think she showed you that? Her hearts core. And how was it? Like a shrine, for it was holy; like snow, for it was pure; like flame, for it was warm; like death, for it was strong. Can she love? Tell me that. What think you? She has loved none that have loved her yet. Who are those that have loved her? He named a list of gentlemen, closing with Sir Philip Nunnely. She has loved none of these. Yet some of them were worthy of a womans affection. Of some womens, but not of Shirleys. Is she better than others of her sex? She is peculiar, and more dangerous to take as a wife rashly. I can imagine that. She spoke of you Oh! She did! I thought you denied it. She did not speak in the way you fancy; but I asked her, and I would make her tell me what she thought of you, or, rather, how she felt towards you. I wanted to knowI had long wanted to know. So had I; but let us hear. She thinks meanlyshe feels contemptuously, doubtless? She thinks of you almost as highly as a woman can think of a man. You know she can be eloquentI yet feel in fancy the glow of the language in which her opinion was conveyed. But how does she feel? Till you shocked hershe said you had shocked her, but she would not tell me howshe felt as a sister feels towards a brother of whom she is at once fond and proud. Ill shock her no more, Cary, for the shock rebounded on myself till I staggered again. But that comparison about sister and brother is all nonsense. She is too rich and proud to entertain fraternal sentiments for me. You dont know her, Robert; and somehow I fancy nowI had other ideas formerlythat you cannot know her. You and she are not so constructed as to be able thoroughly to understand each other. It may be so. I esteem her; I admire her; and yet my impressions concerning her are harsh, perhaps uncharitable. I believe, for instance, that she is incapable of love |
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