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The following text is from Frank Swinnerton's 1917 novel Nocturne. Jenny is in the kitchen with her sister Emmy when a knock sounds at the door.

She reached as she spoke to the hat lying upon the plate rack above the gas stove, looking fixedly away from her sister. Her air of gravity was unchanged. Emmy, hesitating, made as if to speak, to implore something; but, being repelled, she turned, and went to the front door.

As used in the text, what does the word "gravity" most nearly mean?

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