She had not
dreamed that she could win a man's love--had hardly dreamed till she had
lived at Exeter that she had love of her own to give back in return.
She had not known that she could be firm in her own opinion, that she
could laugh herself and cause others to laugh, that she could be a lady
and know that other women were not so, that she had good looks of her
own and could be very happy when told of them by lips that she loved.
The flower that blows the quickest is never the sweetest. The fruit
that ripens tardily has ever the finest flavour. It is often the same
with men and women. The lad who talks at twenty as men should talk at
thirty, has seldom much to say worth the hearing when he is forty; and
the girl who at eighteen can shine in society with composure, has
generally given over shining before she is a full-grown woman. With
Dorothy the scent and beauty of the flower, and the flavour of the
fruit, had come late; but the fruit will keep, and the flower will not
fall to pieces with the heat of an evening.
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