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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. TT is the opinion of moralists that when a girl has succeeded in being good- looking she has fulfilled every duty in life. This opinion was one which the Honorable Miss Sixmith made it very obvious that she did not share. When Uxhill first saw her he was conscious of a new conception of beauty. His trained eye followed her. But to such things she was used. The fact that her appearance was uncommon, even as a child, strangers turning after her on the street had made her aware. It had made her aware, too, of the pleasure of long meditations before the looking-glass that showed back the perfect profile of her perfect face. In these meditations she got at times soclose to the glass that the vapor of her breath, obscuring it, hid her from herself. She rubbed it off and looked again. The pleasure was too puerile to endure. But admiration, always ambient and sometimes audible, she trailed as a torch trails smoke. It gratified her greatly until, as she matured, it provoked advances,?attempts at acquaintance so odious that when she went out unaccompanied she went veiled, forced to hide her beauty as though instead of a glory it were a shame. These things she confided to Maud, not at once but much later, when Mowgy was convalescent and the community of the sick-room had made the two women friends. During the progress of the disease, up to and over its crisis, she had thought for nothing but the child, tending her with a solicitude which Maud herself could not have exceeded; with a competence which Sayce had not forecast; tending her wearilessly, sleeping, when she had to sleep, like a dog on guard, with one eye open; it may be with both. The attack, brief but vicious, finally was repulsed. Such danger as there had been retreated, leaving Mowgy like a little battlefield, ...
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