These gifts Caroline could not refuse without paining her young friend.

She took them reluctantly, for, to do her justice, Caroline, though ambitious, was not mean.
Thus time passed in the rectory, in gay variety and constant entertainment; and all things combined to spoil the heiress, if, indeed, goodness ever is spoiled by kindness and prosperity.

Is it to the frost or to the sunshine that the flower opens its petals, or the fruit ripens from the blossom?
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