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Georgiana sat on a high stool, dressing her hair at the glass, and

interweaving her curls with artificial flowers and faded feathers,

of which she had found a store in a drawer in the attic I was

et it

arranged before she returned (for Bessie now frequently employed me

as a sort of under-nursery spread the quilt and folded ht-dress, I went to

the -seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house

furniture scattered there; an abrupt cos alone (for the tiny chairs and mirrors, the fairy

plates and cups, were her property) stopped s; and

then, for lack of other occupation, I fell to breathing on the

frost-flohich the as fretted, and thus clearing a

space in the glass through which I rounds,

where all was still and petrified under the influence of a hard

frost