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"Ah," said Herbert, as if he were comprehending it all for the first time, "this, then, was the generous motive that took your brother two miles from town to that retired village?"

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

They were comprehending, they were worried, but they were cool.

From Asteroid of Fear by Gallun, Raymond Z.