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Miss Aldclyffe's dressing-room was an apartment which, on a casual survey, conveyed an impression that it was available for almost any purpose save the adornment of the fe pertaining to the toilet was visible; even the inevitable ed in a roohted by aof its own, called the dressing-

The washing-stand figured as a vast oak chest, carved with grotesque Renaissance orna between a high altar and a cabinet piano, the surface being richly worked in the same style of se been arrived at by an ingenious joiner and decorator fro town, after , under Miss Aldclyffe's i the remains of two or three old cabinets the lady had found in the lumber-roo portion being laid with parquetry of light and dark woods

Miss Aldclyffe was standing at the larger ay frolad you have coet on capitally, I dare say' Her bonnet was off Cytherea did not think her so handsome as on the earlier day; the queenliness of her beauty was harder and less warm But a worse discovery than this was that Miss Aldclyffe, with the usual obliviousness of rich people to their dependents' specialities, seeotten Cytherea's inexperience, and mechanically delivered up her body to her handht of details, and with aell at first The dress was res and black boots were taken off, and silk stockings and white shoes were put on Miss Aldclyffe then retired to bathe her hands and face, and Cytherea drew breath If she could get through this first evening, all would be right She felt that it was unfortunate that such a crucial test for her powers as a birthday dinner should have been applied on the threshold of her arrival; but set to again

Miss Aldclyffe was now arrayed in a white dressing-gown, and dropped languidly into an easy-chair, pushed up before the glass The instincts of her sex and her own practice told Cytherea the next movement She let Miss Aldclyffe's hair fall about her shoulders, and began to arrange it It proved to be all real; a satisfaction

Miss Aldclyffe wason the floor, and the operation went on for sohts seelass