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Her mother felt rather gratified at this. There was, then, to be another
interview, and that was a proof that Woodward had not been finally
discarded. So far, matters did not seem so disheartening as she had
anticipated. She looked upon Alice's agitation, and the tears she had
been shedding, as the result of the constraint which she had put upon
her inclination in giving him, she hoped, a favorable reception; and
with this impression she went to communicate what she conceived to be
the good intelligence to her husband.
Alice, until the next interview took place, passed a wretched time
of it. As the reader knows, she was constitutionally timid and easily
alarmed, and she consequently anticipated, something very distressing
in the disclosures which Woodward was about to make. That there was
something uncommon and painful in connection with Charles Lindsay to
be mentioned, was quite evident from Woodward's language and his
unaccountable agitation. He was evidently in earnest; and, from the
suddenness with which the confession of her attachment to his brother
came upon him, it was impossible, she concluded, that he could have
had time to concoct the hints which he threw out.
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