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126 BLACK SHEEP.tions of maternal care and tenderness yvhich shehad formed — feelings she had hidden, intentionsshe had abandoned from motives of prudencefounded on her thorough comprehension of thebesetting weakness of her husband's character.Clare had not the word of the enigma, and itpuzzled her. But it delighted her also. Instinctivelyshe felt there was something ofMark Felton'sdoing in this. He hacl impressed her asfav-ourably as she hacl impressed him. She hadrecognised his possession of the tyvo great qualities,feeling ancl intelligence, and her own kindred endowmentshadanswered to them at once.Was she goingto be happy ancl useful ?Wasshe going to be something more than the richMiss Carruthers, the heiress of Poynings, whohad every luxury life could supply except thatof feeling herself of active individual importanceto any living creature? Was Poynings goingto be as pleasant as the Sycamores, and for amore worthy reason? Clare felt in her honestyoung heart that the superiority of the Sycamoresconsisted principally in the fact that theuncle who inhabited that abodewas never in
PAUL WARD. 127her yvay, whereas the uncle yvho ruled at Poyningsyvas generally otherwise, and unpleasant.It was very ungrateful of her to feel this;butshe did feel it. Was all this going to be altered ?Was she going to have the sort of feeling thatmight have been hers if she had not been theheiress of Poynings, but the real, own daughterof a kind lady who needed ancl yvould acceptall her girlish love and eager, if unskilful, care?It must be so, Clare thought, now Mrs. Carruthershad her son with her, and she no longerfelt that there yvas injustice done to her, forwhich Clare was made the reason or the pretext,shewould allow her to be all she hadalwaysdesired to be. How much uselessness, unreality,yveariness, fell away from Clare Carruthersas she rode on, the beautiful healthful colourrising higher in her cheeks as the glad thoughts,the vague, sweet, unselfish hopes of the future,expanded in her young heart! She yvould tellMrs. Carruthers some day when she was quiteyvell when there should be no longer any dangerof doino- her harm by the revelation, about themyrstery which had caused her so much suffer-
- Page 84 and 85: 76 BLACK SHEEP.he sawa man standing
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- Page 90 and 91: 82 BLACK SHEEP.told you so," he con
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- Page 94 and 95: 86 BLACK SHEEP.will never swerve or
- Page 96 and 97: 88 BLACK SHEEP.as soon as he releas
- Page 98 and 99: 90 BLACK SHEEP.manner, his look yva
- Page 100 and 101: 92 BLACK SHEEP.merous progeny of a
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- Page 106 and 107: 98 BLACK SHEEP.technical sense that
- Page 108 and 109: 100 BLACK SHEEP.with the mysterious
- Page 110 and 111: 102 BLACK SHEEP.mother yvas the onl
- Page 112 and 113: 104 BLACK SHEEP.illness ?He set him
- Page 114 and 115: 106 BLACK SHEEP.He found his step-s
- Page 116 and 117: 108 BLACK SHEEP.presence, ancl the
- Page 118 and 119: 110 BLACK SHEEP.phew yvas a "good-f
- Page 120 and 121: 112 BLACK SHEEP." Ishould think you
- Page 122 and 123: 114 BLACK SHEEP.Carruthers, had sai
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- Page 128 and 129: 120 BLACK SHEEP.rible conviction of
- Page 130 and 131: 122 BLACK SHEEP.yvith infinitely mo
- Page 132 and 133: 124 BLACK SHEEP.change which her ne
- Page 136 and 137: 128 BLACK SHEEr.ing, and then, when
- Page 138 and 139: 130 BLACK SHEEP."I am sure it has b
- Page 140 and 141: 132 BLACK SHEEP.think of me?Idare s
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- Page 150 and 151: 142 BLACK SHEEP.of Harriet's suppos
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- Page 154 and 155: 146 BLACK SHEEr.monised yvith the t
- Page 156 and 157: 148 BLACK SHEEP.in reality — went
- Page 158 and 159: 150 BLACK SHEEP.Jim of late, odd jo
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- Page 162 and 163: 154 BLACK SHEEP.tents with a still
- Page 164 and 165: 156 BLACK SHEEP.yvas goingto do. Fo
- Page 166 and 167: 158 BLACK SHEEP.per circles, as can
- Page 168 and 169: 160 BLACK SHEEP.made her a sufficie
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- Page 172 and 173: 164 BLACK SHEEP.might almost have j
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126 BLACK SHEEP.tions of maternal care and tenderness yvhich shehad formed — feelings she had hidden, intentionsshe had abandoned from motives of prudencefounded on her thorough comprehension of thebesetting weakness of her husband's character.Clare had not the word of the enigma, and itpuzzled her. But it delighted her also. Instinctivelyshe felt there was something ofMark Felton'sdoing in this. He hacl impressed her asfav-ourably as she hacl impressed him. She hadrecognised his possession of the tyvo great qualities,feeling ancl intelligence, and her own kindred endowmentshadanswered to them at once.Was she goingto be happy ancl useful ?Wasshe going to be something more than the richMiss Carruthers, the heiress of Poynings, whohad every luxury life could supply except thatof feeling herself of active individual importanceto any living creature? Was Poynings goingto be as pleasant as the Sycamores, and for amore worthy reason? Clare felt in her honestyoung heart that the superiority of the Sycamoresconsisted principally in the fact that theuncle who inhabited that abodewas never in
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