I sometimes think I've paid
too much for this. Perhaps you also might have to pay too much."
"Perhaps I might," the girl replied.
That suggestion gave her something more definite to rest on than she
had found in her own thoughts, and the fact of this association of her
uncle's mild acuteness with her dilemma seemed to prove that she was
concerned with the natural and reasonable emotions of life and not
altogether a victim to intellectual eagerness and vague ambitions-
ambitions reaching beyond Lord Warburton's beautiful appeal,
reaching to something indefinable and possibly not commendable. In
so far as the indefinable had an influence upon Isabel's behaviour
at this juncture, it was not the conception, even unformulated, of a
union with Caspar Goodwood; for however she might have resisted
conquest at her English suitor's large quiet hands she was at least as
far removed from the disposition to let the young man from Boston take
positive possession of her. The sentiment in which she sought refuge
after reading his letter was a critical view of his having come
abroad; for it was part of the influence he had upon her that he
seemed to deprive her of the sense of freedom.
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