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Miss Grig's Christian1 name was Isabel; it was somehow secret, and never heard in the office; and Felix, if he ever employed it, could only have done so in the sacred privacy of the principals' room. Like her brother, Miss Grig might have been almost any age, but only the malice2 of a prisonful of women could have seriously asserted her to be older than Felix. Although by general consent an authentic3 virgin4, she had not the air of one. Rather full in figure, she was neither desiccated nor stiff, and when she moved her soft body took on flowing curves, so that clever and experienced observers could not resist the inference, almost certainly wrong, that in the historic past of Isabel lay hidden some Sabine episode or sublime5 folly6 of self-surrender. She had black hair, streaked7 with grey, and marvellous troubled, smouldering black eyes that seemed to yearn8 and appeal. And yet in an occasional gesture and tone she would become masculine.
She went wrong in the matter of clothes, aspiring9 after elegance10 and missing it through a fundamental lack of distinction, and also through inability to concentrate her effects. Her dresses consisted of ten thousand details held together by no unity11 of conception. Thin gold chains wandered, apparently12 purposeless, over her rich form; they would disappear like a railway in a cutting and then pop out unexpectedly in another part of the lush rolling countryside. The contours of her visible garments gave the impression that the
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Christian
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relic
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frustration
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perversity
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unnatural
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truthful
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influential
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curt
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rabble
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disturbance
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possessed
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attire
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Oxford
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insolence
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toiling
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sipping
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graceful
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vocation
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precipice
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