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'It will be very good for her to have no old associations to sit
brooding over.'
'My poor little Cherry! If I saw how to cheer up her life; but
without your lessons it will be more dreary for her than ever!'
'Give her all you can to do, and do not be over-careful to keep your
anxieties from her knowledge. She is very much of a woman, and if you
leave her too much to herself, she will grow more introspective.'
'Wilmet and I have always wanted to shelter her; she never seems fit
for trouble, and she is so young!'
'Compared with you two venerable people!' said Mr. Audley, smiling.
'But her mind is not young, and to treat her as a child is the way to
make her prey upon herself. I wish her talent could be more
cultivated; but meantime nothing is better for her than the care of
Bernard and Stella. I hope you will not be in a hurry to promote them
out of her hands.'
'Very well; but she will miss you sorely.'
'I hope to see her brightened before I am really gone, and I am not
going to decamp from this house till some natural break comes. To do
that would be absurd!'
There was a silence; and then Felix said with a sigh, 'Yes, a smaller
house, and one servant.
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