Excerpt from Still Waters, Vol. 2 of 2
Was Mr. Clinton's conscience so tender said Clara, innocently and she really was un conscious, probably because her own memory in such matters was not particularly retentive, how that allusion made Ruth inwardly shrink and shiver. Yet she gave no outward sign of emotion, save a slight compression of the firm, pale lips, and she had steadied the hand which rested on her brother's arm before he discovered how it trembled in his grasp.
David was in love, and therefore he could not wish one word unsaid which fell from Clara's lips; yet he was conscious that the remark jarred upon him, and he said quickly, Jasper Clinton was thoroughly true-hearted, and I Often find, on looking back, that I owe to him the few fixed principles I have.' I don't quite understand, ' said Clara, lightly, whether Mr. Clinton was a warning or an example; if the latter, I am afraid you must be a very unprincipled character.'
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