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"
I
would
only
too
gladly
,
"
replied
Mrs.
Carter
,
"
if
I
knew
what
to
do
.
"
"
Take
my
advice
and
go
to
New
York
for
the
present
You
will
get
rid
of
your
expenses
here
,
and
I
will
help
you
with
the
rest
--
for
the
present
,
anyhow
.
You
can
get
a
start
again
.
It
is
too
bad
about
these
children
of
yours
.
I
will
take
care
of
the
boy
as
soon
as
he
is
old
enough
.
As
for
Berenice
"
--
he
used
her
name
softly
--
"
if
she
can
stay
in
her
school
until
she
is
nineteen
or
twenty
the
chances
are
that
she
will
make
social
connections
which
will
save
her
nicely
.
The
thing
for
you
to
do
is
to
avoid
meeting
any
of
this
old
crowd
out
here
in
the
future
if
you
can
.
It
might
be
advisable
to
take
her
abroad
for
a
time
after
she
leaves
school
.
"
"
Yes
,
if
I
just
could
,
"
sighed
Mrs.
Carter
,
rather
lamely
.
"
Well
,
do
what
I
suggest
now
,
and
we
will
see
,
"
observed
Cowperwood
.
"
It
would
be
a
pity
if
your
two
children
were
to
have
their
lives
ruined
by
such
an
accident
as
this
.
"
Mrs.
Carter
,
realizing
that
here
,
in
the
shape
of
Cowperwood
,
if
he
chose
to
be
generous
,
was
the
open
way
out
of
a
lowering
dungeon
of
misery
,
was
inclined
to
give
vent
to
a
bit
of
grateful
emotion
,
but
,
finding
him
subtly
remote
,
restrained
herself
.
His
manner
,
while
warmly
generous
at
times
,
was
also
easily
distant
,
except
when
he
wished
it
to
be
otherwise
.
Just
now
he
was
thinking
of
the
high
soul
of
Berenice
Fleming
and
of
its
possible
value
to
him
.
Berenice
Fleming
,
at
the
time
Cowperwood
first
encountered
her
mother
,
was
an
inmate
of
the
Misses
Brewster
's
School
for
Girls
,
then
on
Riverside
Drive
,
New
York
,
and
one
of
the
most
exclusive
establishments
of
its
kind
in
America
.
The
social
prestige
and
connections
of
the
Heddens
,
Flemings
,
and
Carters
were
sufficient
to
gain
her
this
introduction
,
though
the
social
fortunes
of
her
mother
were
already
at
this
time
on
the
down
grade
.
A
tall
girl
,
delicately
haggard
,
as
he
had
imagined
her
,
with
reddish-bronze
hair
of
a
tinge
but
distantly
allied
to
that
of
Aileen
's
,
she
was
unlike
any
woman
Cowperwood
had
ever
known
.
Even
at
seventeen
she
stood
up
and
out
with
an
inexplicable
superiority
which
brought
her
the
feverish
and
exotic
attention
of
lesser
personalities
whose
emotional
animality
found
an
outlet
in
swinging
a
censer
at
her
shrine
.
A
strange
maiden
,
decidedly
!
Even
at
this
age
,
when
she
was
,
as
one
might
suppose
,
a
mere
slip
of
a
girl
,
she
was
deeply
conscious
of
herself
,
her
sex
,
her
significance
,
her
possible
social
import
.
Armed
with
a
fair
skin
,
a
few
freckles
,
an
almost
too
high
color
at
times
,
strange
,
deep
,
night-blue
,
cat-like
eyes
,
a
long
nose
,
a
rather
pleasant
mouth
,
perfect
teeth
,
and
a
really
good
chin
,
she
moved
always
with
a
feline
grace
that
was
careless
,
superior
,
sinuous
,
and
yet
the
acme
of
harmony
and
a
rhythmic
flow
of
lines
.
One
of
her
mess-hall
tricks
,
when
unobserved
by
her
instructors
,
was
to
walk
with
six
plates
and
a
water-pitcher
all
gracefully
poised
on
the
top
of
her
head
after
the
fashion
of
the
Asiatic
and
the
African
,
her
hips
moving
,
her
shoulders
,
neck
,
and
head
still
.
Girls
begged
weeks
on
end
to
have
her
repeat
this
"
stunt
,
"
as
they
called
it
.
Another
was
to
put
her
arms
behind
her
and
with
a
rush
imitate
the
Winged
Victory
,
a
copy
of
which
graced
the
library
hall
.
"
You
know
,
"
one
little
rosy-cheeked
satellite
used
to
urge
on
her
,
adoringly
,
"
she
must
have
been
like
you
.
Her
head
must
have
been
like
yours
.
You
are
lovely
when
you
do
it
.
"
