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" She had, indeed, often rebuked his taste for what she considered murderous sports, held in abhorrence by her sect; yet once, when her brother had been left by a wasting fever with a sickly appetite, she gladly received the frequent bag of game, nor scrupulously counted the little lives that went to fill it. Nor would any one so surely raise a smile on her habitually grave face as " the young man Philip. " But those days were past. A woman s instinct, surer than "Suspicion s hundred eyes, " ha...d alarmed her for her niece ; and, together with her desire to promote her mar riage with a thriving young Quaker suitor, led her to discourage an intimacy which she feared could only pro duce unhappiness. For this reason she had favored the long sojourn among their distant friends; and, perceiv ing that Philip s visits were not renewed, she hoped the danger was passed. The request of Miss Lawrence was therefore as unpleasant as unexpected. A PEEP AT THE PAST. 275 Priscilla did not reply to her aunt s unfavorable ob servation, but looked perplexed and uneasy.
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