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"Yet a princely man! -- / If hard to me, heroic for himself! " / _Mrs. Browning's 'Aurora Leigh. '_
When Queenie saw Garth coming towards her she shrank back for a / moment in natural trepidation and some little dismay, the meeting was / so utterly unexpected; but her self-possession soon returned. "It is / better to get it over," she said to herself, "and to know the worst / at once."