She stopped in one of her many aversions and reversions, and looked at him steadily across her shoulder.
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"You're my guests," she said, trying to smile down old aversions.
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And now, suddenly, without any cause, except the aversion of a wife, whose aversions seldom troubled him in any great degree, is it natural that he should give up Harry Ormond, and suffer him to sacrifice himself in vain for the preservation of a conjugal peace, which Sir Ulick ought to have known could not by such a sacrifice be preserved?
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