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Eugenia?" Felix asked. "Isn't she charming?"
"She is very brilliant," said Gertrude. "But I can't tell yet. She seems to me like a singer singing an air. You can't tell till the song is done."
"Ah, the song will never be done!'" exclaimed the young man, laughing. "Don't you think her handsome?"
Gertrude had been disappointed in the beauty of the Baroness Münster; she had expected her, for mysterious reasons, to resemble a very pretty portrait of the Empress Josephine, of which there hung an engraving in one of the parlours and which the younger Miss Wentworth had always greatly admired. But the Baroness was not
