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then, in deference to your opinion, papa, endeavor to control those
impressions and think as well of him as I can."
"You are right, Alice, and I thank you. We should never, if possible,
suffer ourselves to be prematurely ungenerous in our estimate of
strangers, especially when we know that this world is filled with the
most absurd and ridiculous prejudices. How do you know, my dear child,
that yours is not one of them?"
"Alice, love," said her mother, "I think, upon reflection, your father
is right, as he always is; let us not be less generous than this young
man, and you know it would be ungenerous to prejudge him; and this comes
the more strange from you, my love, inasmuch as I never yet heard you
express a prejudice almost against any person."
"Because I don't remember, mamma, that I ever felt such an
impression--prejudice--call it what you will--against any individual as
I do against this man. I absolutely fear him without knowing why."
"Precisely so, my dear Alice," replied her father, "precisely so; and,
as you say, with-out knowing why.


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