" Mrs. Down under the incalculable selfishness of the penitent child there was the man's uneasy recollection of Judas. . She thought of her aunt and that purse that was dropped on the table, and of many troublesome and ill-requited kindnesses; she thought of the help of the Widgetts, of Teddy’s admiration; she thought, with a new-born charity, of her father, of Manning’s conscientious unselfishness, of Miss Miniver’s devotion. She was saying good-bye to childhood and home, and her making; she was going out into the great, multitudinous world; this time there would be no returning. ’ ‘You always were an old sobersides, even as a boy,’ retorted the major, who was close on thirty now, yet as ripe for excitement as he had been on receiving his first commission at sixteen. This did not tickle his vanity; on the contrary, it enlivened his terror, which is a phase of fascination. Though not much passed the middle term of life, he seemed prematurely stricken with old age.
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