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Would she be one of them?
Would she steep a little child in such an atmosphere of memories,
casting a young and tender mind backward into a cruel past instead of
leading it forward into a joyous present? Maurice had been the very
soul of happiness. Vere must be linked with the sunbeams. With his
utmost subtlety Artois described and traced the effect upon a tiny and
sensitive child of a mother's influence, whether for good or evil,
until Hermione, who had a deep reverence for his knowledge of all
phases of human nature, at last, almost in despite of the truth within
her, of the interior voice which said to her, "With you and Vere it
would not be so," caught alarm from his apparent alarm, drew distrust
of herself from his apparent distrust of her.
Gaspare, too, played his part. When Hermione spoke to him of returning
to the priest's house, almost wildly, and with the hot energy that
bursts so readily up in Sicilians, he begged her not to go back to the
/maledetta casa/ in which his Padrone's dead body had lain.


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