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"Do you dislike her? " asked Betty anxiously of her mother on the night of Harriet's arrival. "I do not, and yet I feel that I never can love her -- could not even if it were not for _that_."
"It is that. You never will love her. I cannot say that she has made any impression on me whatever, so far. She seems positively congealed. I suppose she is frightened and worn out, poor thing! She may improve when she is rested and happier."