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A few days afterwards, she had found her level, and decided that she was very glad to have been there, and that she had seen it again, and that to her it would always be the prettiest spot in the world, but that it was so full of associations with former days, and especially with her father and mother, that if it were all to come over again, she should shrink back from such another visit as that which she had paid with Mr. Bell.
CHAPTER XLVII
SOMETHING WANTING
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.   Whence harmonies we cannot understand, Of God's will in His worlds, the strain unfolds In sad, perplexed minors.' MRS. BROWNING.
About this time Dixon returned from Milton, and assumed her post as Margaret's maid. She brought endless pieces of Milton gossip: How Martha had gone to live with Miss Thornton, on the latter's marriage; with an account of the bridesmaids, dresses and breakfasts, at that interesting ceremony; how people thought that Mr. Thornton had made too grand a...   Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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