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XIX. "Decus et Praesidium."
THE search-lights of that evening's talk had betrayed more to Pauline Beverly than the transitory trouble of her sister's mind. In vain did she try to dwell only upon what May had told her, upon the awakening of imagination and feeling that had been revealed in the clear depths of that singularly limpid nature. Unlike as the sisters were, they were yet of closely kindred fiber, and no one but Pauline could have so clearly apprehended or so justly gauged the true significance of the experience which the young girl herself
