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While the direction was being executed, the lady consulted moved

slowly up the rooan of

veneration, for I retain yet the sense of ad ahich ht, she looked

tall, fair, and shapely; brown eyes with a benignant light in their

irids, and a fine pencilling of long lashes round, relieved the

whiteness of her large front; on each of her temples her hair, of a

very dark broas clustered in round curls, according to the

fashion of those tiue; her dress, also in the mode of the day, was of purple

cloth, relieved by a sort of Spanish triold watch (watches were not so coirdle Let the reader add, to complete the picture, refined

features; a coe, and he will have, at least, as clearly as words can give

it, a correct idea of the exterior of Miss Temple--Maria Temple, as

I afterwards saw the name written in a prayer-book intrusted to me

to carry to church

The superintendent of Lowood (for such was this lady) having taken

her seat before a pair of globes placed on one of the tables,

su a lesson on