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112 Lord Avonleigh. Naturally proud and sensitive, she was necessarily reserved; and, perhaps from never having had to practise it, she had the highest idea of the duty owed by child to parent, and held herself bound to silence on a matter which implicated and depended upon her father. What ever she might hope and expect herself, she could allow no other to hazard a conjecture on the subject. To her own thoughts, therefore, she confined the hopes and fears whose agitation she might repress but not subdue.