Tales for Fifteen, or, Imagination and Heart by James Fenimore Cooper
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"But what excites this feeling?" asked Charles with
a smile. "What? why sympathy--and a knowledge of each other's good qualities." "Then you think Miss Miller has more good qualities than Katherine Emmerson," said Weston. "When did I ever say so?" cried Julia in surprise. "I infer it from your loving her better, merely," returned the young man with a little of Miss Emmerson's dryness. "It would be difficult to compare them," said Julia after a moment's pause. "Katherine is in the world, and has had an opportunity of showing her merit; that Anna has never enjoyed. Katherine is certainly a most excellent girl, and I like her very much; but there is no reason to think that Anna will not prove as fine a young woman as Katherine, when put to the trial." "Pray," said the young lawyer with great gravity, "how many of these bosom, these confidential friends can a young woman have at the same time?" "One, only one--any more than she could have two |
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