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"We would be free as Nature, but forget / That Nature wears an universal law, / Free only, for she cannot disobey. "-H. Coleridge.
JEAN was not quite so silent at dinner that night. Colonel Douglas told such entertaining stories, and deferred so often to her, that she surprised her grandfather by expressing opinions of her own. He snubbed her unmercifully more than once, but she did not as usual sink under it.