Hagarene [electronic resource] . practical Christian, than he is to attain a wranglership with-out previous mathematical training. Indeed, as our naturalproclivities are notoriously perverse, the improbabilities ofthe former case would seem rather to exceed those of thelatter. Mariette Locksleys whole education had been a matterof chance and accident; but for perfect secularity, itmight have satisfied the most advanced assessor at ourexistent School Board. She had shrunk, a while ago, fromcomplicity in crime, just as an Indian girl, not yet hardenedby habk, might shrink from the first sight of
Hagarene [electronic resource] . practical Christian, than he is to attain a wranglership with-out previous mathematical training. Indeed, as our naturalproclivities are notoriously perverse, the improbabilities ofthe former case would seem rather to exceed those of thelatter. Mariette Locksleys whole education had been a matterof chance and accident; but for perfect secularity, itmight have satisfied the most advanced assessor at ourexistent School Board. She had shrunk, a while ago, fromcomplicity in crime, just as an Indian girl, not yet hardenedby habk, might shrink from the first sight of torture. Butthe repugnance was of instinct, not of reason ; and, in aftertime, her connivance would seem to her less a crime than apainful necessity. The Packet. 201 Notwithstanding all this, Mariette had not philosophy—•perhaps not patience—enough to encounter at dinner thatevening Leonards maundering curiosity, or Pete Harradinessilent scrutiny. So on the plea of headache, not altogethereigned, she kept her own
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