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"So speaking, with less anger in my voice / Than sorrow, I rose quickly to depart. " -- _Curwen Leigh._
Queenie Marriott was right in asserting that she never failed to / undertake anything to which she had really made up her mind. Strong / impulses were rare with her; but now and then they gained the / mastery, and over-bore all dread of opposing obstacles. At such / times the forces of her mind lay dormant; argument could not shake; / persuasion, even conviction, availed nothing. In such moods Queenie / was inexorable, and triumphed in the exercise of her self-will.