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"On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance...it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen."