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CHAPTER XXVI.
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“And why should such, within herself, she cried,
Lock the lost wealth, a thousand want beside.”—Parnell.
Amanda was sitting alone in the drawing-room one morning, when a gentleman was shown into it, to wait for Lady Greystock. The stranger was about the middle period of life; his dress announced him a military man, and his threadbare coat seemed to declare that whatever laurels1 he had gathered, they were barren ones. His form and face were interesting; infirmity appeared to press upon one, and sorrow had deeply marked the other, yet without despoiling2 it of a certain expression which indicated the hilarity3 nature had once stamped upon it. His temples were sunk, and his cheek faded to a sickly hue4. Amanda felt immediate5 respect and sensibility for the interesting figure before her. The feelings of her soul, the early lessons of her youth, had taught her to reverence6 distress7; and never, perhaps, did she think it so peculiarly affecting, as when in a military garb8.
The day was uncommonly9 severe, and the stranger shivered with the cold.
“I declare, young lady,” cried he, as he took the chair which Amanda had placed for him by the fire, “I think I should not tremble more before an enemy, than I do before this day. I don’t know but what it is as essential for a subaltern officer to stand cold as well as fire.”
Amanda smiled, and resumed her work. She was busily employed making a trimming of artificial flowers for Lady Greystock, to present to a young lady, from whose family she had received some obligations. This was a cheap mode of returning them, as Amanda’s materials were used.
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benevolence
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wretch
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almighty
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trifling
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