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But Betty Frere was not sure of any such thing; and the very fact of Pitt's disengagedness made him more ensnaring to her.

From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan

Perhaps this very fact had something to do with the noble and sweet disengagedness of manner which marked her unlike those about her, in a world where self-interest of some sort is the ruling motive.

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Warner, Susan