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was not herself conscious how openly all that was noble and true in
her nature, all that was most deeply and sensitively felt in her
aspirations, spoke at that moment in her look. Romayne's face changed:
he turned pale under the new emotion that she had roused in him. Lady
Loring observed him attentively.
"Perhaps you underrate your influence, Stella?" she suggested.
Stella remained impenetrable to persuasion. "I have only been introduced
to Mr. Romayne half an hour since," she said. "I am not vain enough to
suppose that I can produce a favorable impression on any one in so short
a time."
She had expressed, in other words, Romayne's own idea of himself, in
speaking of her to Lord Loring. He was struck by the coincidence.
"Perhaps we have begun, Miss Eyrecourt, by misinterpreting one another,"
he said. "We may arrive at a better understanding when I have the honor
of meeting you again."
He hesitated and looked at Lady Loring. She was not the woman to let
a fair opportunity escape her. "We will say to-morrow evening," she
resumed, "at seven o'clock.


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