"The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches."

Thought, Mind, Observation, Complexity

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"The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches."

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"The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part."

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