person’s
possible
blight.
That
Bathsheba
was a firm
and
positive
girl, far
less
inconsequent
than her
fellows,
had been
the very
lung of
his hope;
for he had
held that
these
qualities
would lead
her to
adhere to
a straight
course for
consistency’s
sake, and
accept
him,
though her
fancy
might not
flood him
with the
iridescent
hues of
uncritical
love. But
the
argument
now came
back as
sorry
gleams
from a
broken
mirror.
The
discovery
