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Tales for Fifteen, or, Imagination and Heart by James Fenimore Cooper
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"Well, by the imagination then: but it is an
imagination that is purified by sentiment, and"--

"Already rendered partial by the innate evidence of
worth," interrupted Charles.

Julia had lost herself in the mazes of her own
ideas, and changed the subject under a secret
suspicion that her companions were amusing
themselves at her expense; she, therefore,
proceeded directly to urge the request of Anna
Miller.

"Oh! aunt, now we are on the subject of friends, I
wish to request you would authorize me to invite
my Anna to pass the next winter with us in Park-
Place."

"I confess, my love," said Miss Emmerson, glancing
her eye at Katherine, "that I had different views for
ourselves next winter: has not Miss Miller a married
sister living in town?"

"Yes, but she has positively refused to ask the dear
girl, I know," said Julia. "Anna is not a favourite
with her sister."

"Very odd that," said the aunt gravely; "there must
be a reason for her dislike then: what can be the
cause of this unusual distaste for each other?"
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