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CHAPTER XVIII.The Clash
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The peculiar1 personality of Rita Sohlberg was such that by her very action she ordinarily allayed3 suspicion, or rather distracted it. Although a novice4, she had a strange ease, courage, or balance of soul which kept her whole and self-possessed under the most trying of circumstances. She might have been overtaken in the most compromising of positions, but her manner would always have indicated ease, a sense of innocence5, nothing unusual, for she had no sense of moral degradation6 in this matter—no troublesome emotion as to what was to flow from a relationship of this kind, no worry as to her own soul, sin, social opinion, or the like. She was really interested in art and life—a pagan, in fact. Some people are thus hardily7 equipped. It is the most notable attribute of the hardier8 type of personalities—not necessarily the most brilliant or successful. You might have said that her soul was naively9 unconscious of the agony of others in loss. She would have taken any loss to herself with an amazing equableness—some qualms10, of course, but not many—because her vanity and sense of charm would have made her look forward to something better or as good.
She had called on Aileen quite regularly in the past, with or without Harold, and had frequently driven with the Cowperwoods or joined them at the theater or elsewhere. She had decided11, after becoming intimate with Cowperwood, to study art again, which was a charming blind, for it called for attendance at afternoon or evening classes which she frequently skipped. Besides, since Harold had more money he was becoming gayer, more reckless and enthusiastic over women, and Cowperwood
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