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The Testing of Diana Mallory

CHAPTER II
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Come and look at them--they are on our way." He led her to inspect them.

They proved to be two Gainsboroughs and a Raeburn, representing ancestors on Lady Lucy's side.

Mr.Ferrier's talk of them showed his intimate knowledge both of Varleys and Marshams, the knowledge rather of a kinsman than a friend.

Diana perceived, indeed, how great must be the affection, the intimacy, between him and them.
Meanwhile, as the man of fifty and the slender girl in black passed before him, on their way to examine the pictures, Sir James Chide, casually looking up, was apparently struck by some rapid and powerful impression.

It arrested the hand playing with the dog; it held and transformed the whole man.


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