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"I consecrated my life to you from the moment when I first saw you, and I feel a certain pleasure in sacrificing it to you. " -- _Letters of a Portuguese Nun._
In all his well-conducted life Denzil Vanston had never stood at the bedside of a beautiful young girl. His staid imagination had not foreshadowed anything like this maiden, with her double halo of mystery and suffering. His brother Felix, younger, harder, and more callous, had felt compassion for the child's feminine helplessness, but no perception of her rare charm.