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Louise Percy, without being very beautiful or very bewitching, was a very sensible, earnest, straightforward girl. With a warm heart and generous disposition, she was free, open, and sincere in her intercourse with the world.
Just the opposite was her friend and confidant, Susan Maylie, though, as the world goes, she passed for a good-hearted person. She lacked that transparency of motive which was so eminently the characteristic of Louise's temperament. Where no strong prejudice actuated her, she was generally prompt in her choice of the good from the evil, though sometimes the most intimate friend was involuntarily led to suspect her motive.