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In different ways, Christian1 and Marcella Moxey had both been lonely since their childhood. As a schoolgirl, Marcella seemed to her companions conceited2 and repellent; only as the result of reflection in after years did Sylvia Moorhouse express so favourable3 an opinion of her. In all things she affected4 singularity; especially it was her delight to utter democratic and revolutionary sentiments among hearers who, belonging to a rigidly6 conservative order, held such opinions impious. Arrived at womanhood, she affected scorn of the beliefs and habits cherished by her own sex, and shrank from association with the other. Godwin Peak was the first man with whom she conversed7 in the tone of friendship, and it took a year or more before that point was reached. As her intimacy8 with him established itself, she was observed to undergo changes which seemed very significant in the eyes of her few acquaintances. Disregard of costume had been one of her characteristics, but now she moved gradually towards the opposite extreme, till her dresses were occasionally more noticeable for richness than for good taste.
Christian, for kindred reasons, was equally debarred from the pleasures and profits of society. At school, his teachers considered him clever, his fellows for the most part looked down upon him as a sentimental10 weakling. The death of his parents, when he was still a lad, left him to the indifferent care of a guardian11 nothing akin12 to him. He began life in an uncongenial position, and had not courage to oppose the drift of circumstances. The romantic

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staple
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