'It was an act of cowardice,' she said,--'wearing the dress
yesterday. I had got used to it, and did not feel safe without it;
but I shall not wear it any more.'
'I think you are right,' said Falconer. 'The nearer any friendly act
is associated with the individual heart, without intervention of
class or creed, the more the humanity, which is the divinity of it,
will appear.'
He then told her about Nancy.
'I will keep her about myself for a while,' said Miss St. John,
'till I see what can be done with her. I know a good many people
who without being prepared, or perhaps able to take any trouble, are
yet ready to do a kindness when it is put in their way.'
'I feel more and more that I ought to make some friends,' said
Falconer; 'for I find my means of help reach but a little way. What
had I better do? I suppose I could get some introductions.--I
hardly know how.'
'That will easily be managed. I will take that in hand. If you
will accept invitations, you will soon know a good many people--of
all sorts,' she added with a smile.
About this time Falconer, having often felt the pressure of his
ignorance of legal affairs, and reflected whether it would not add
to his efficiency to rescue himself from it, began such a course of
study as would fit him for the profession of the law. Gifted with
splendid health, and if with a slow strength of grasping, yet with a
great power of holding, he set himself to work, and regularly read
for the bar.
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