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Part 1 - Chapter 1. Northerners In Sunlight
_ PART I CHAPTER I. NORTHERNERS IN SUNLIGHT
By a window looking from Posillipo upon the Bay of Naples sat an English lady, engaged in letter-writing. She was only in her four-and-twentieth year, but her attire of subdued mourning indicated widowhood already at the stage when it is permitted to make quiet suggestion of freedom rather than distressful reference to loss； the dress, however, was severely plain, and its grey coldness, which would well have harmonized with an English sky in this month of November, looked alien in the southern sunlight. There was no mistaking her nationality； the absorption, the troubled earnestness with which she bent over her writing, were peculiar to a cast of features such as can be found only in our familiar island； a physiognomy not quite pure in outline, vigorous in general effect and in detail delicate； a proud young face, full of character and capacity, beautiful in chaste control. Sorrowful

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