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aspect. A compliment had once been paid her which, being repeated to her, gave her greater pleasure than anything she had ever heard. "A pretty woman?" some one had said. "Why, her features are very bad." "I don't know about her features," a very discerning observer had answered; "but she carries her head like a pretty woman." You may imagine whether, after this, she carried her head less becomingly.
She turned away from the window at last, pressing her hands to her eyes. "It's too horrible!" she exclaimed. "I shall go back—I shall go back!" And she flung herself into a chair before the fire. "Wait a little, dear child," said the young
