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“Croyez-vous m’avoir humiliée pour m’avoir appris que la terre tourne
autour du soleil? Je vous jure que je ne m’en estime pas moins.”
—FONTENELLE: Pluralité des Mondes.
That lofty criticism had caused Gwendolen a new sort of pain. She would not have chosen to confess how unfortunate she thought herself in not having had Miss Arrowpoint’s musical advantages, so as to be able to question Herr Klesmer’s taste with the confidence of thorough knowledge; still less, to admit even to herself that Miss Arrowpoint each time they met raised an unwonted feeling of jealousy1 in her: not in the least because she was an heiress, but because it was really provoking that a girl whose appearance you could not characterize except by saying that her figure was slight and of middle stature2, her features small, her eyes tolerable, and her complexion3 sallow, had nevertheless a certain mental superiority which could not be explained away—an exasperating4 thoroughness in her musical accomplishment5, a fastidious discrimination in her general tastes, which made it impossible to force her admiration6 and kept you in awe7 of her standard. This insignificant-looking young lady of four-and-twenty, whom any one’s eyes would have passed over negligently8 if she had not been Miss Arrowpoint, might be suspected of a secret opinion that Miss Harleth’s acquirements were rather of a common order, and such an opinion was not made agreeable to think of by being always veiled under a perfect kindness of manner.
But Gwendolen did not like to dwell on facts which threw an unfavorable light on itself. The musical Magus who had so suddenly widened her horizon was not always on the scene; and his being constantly backward and forward between London and Quetcham soon began to be thought of as offering opportunities for converting him to a more admiring state of mind. Meanwhile, in the manifest pleasure her singing gave at Brackenshaw Castle, the Firs, and elsewhere, she recovered her
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