Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention . . .
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