The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: Nothing of these." But it had frightened her. She remembered it to
this day. She had been ever since fancying she could detect the
lingering reflection of that look in all the girl's glances. In the
attentive, in the casual--even in the grateful glances--in the
expression of the softest moods.
"Has she her soft moods, then?" I asked with interest.
Mrs Fyne, much moved by her recollections, heeded not my inquiry.
All her mental energy was concentrated on the nature of that
memorable glance. The general tradition of mankind teaches us that
glances occupy a considerable place in the self-expression of women.
Mrs. Fyne was trying honestly to give me some idea, as much perhaps
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