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 ¬left it ! I scarcely know what I am saying — but happily our language is to ourselves." ¬Morvinu was very young and not prepared for this — she changed and re-changed colour ; she half looked at me but withdrew her eyes, and half looked at me again. — She was the first woman I had seen so closely in this other world, and I found her to be like all our own. She was not at all offended — no woman is ever offended at being admired, nor ought to be — we are irresistibly drawn towards one another by unknown sympathies, but which, like other mysteries of nature, may perhaps one day or another be understood. ¬If the fair Morvina had been obliged in the instant to resume her interpretation, our embar- rassment might have been observed, but her gay brother relieved us by interposing (as he thought) a fatal objection to public places as substitutes for the private mobs. " They might do well enough," lie said, " once a fortnight, or even once ¬a week, ¬