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Rosa faster than theirdown, but stood at the toilet-table near

the hile Rosamond took off her hat, adjusted her veil, and

applied little touches of her finger-tips to her hair--hair of

infantine fairness, neither flaxen nor yellow Mary Garth seele between the two nylass, and the one out of it, who looked at each other with eyes of

heavenly blue, deep enough to hold the s an

ingenious beholder could put into thes of the owner if these should happen to be less exquisite

Only a few children in Middleure displayed by her riding-habit had

delicate undulations In fact, most men in Middlemarch, except her

brothers, held that Miss Vincy was the best girl in the world, and soel Mary Garth, on the contrary, had the aspect of an

ordinary sinner: she was brown; her curly dark hair was rough and

stubborn; her stature was low; and it would not be true to declare, in

satisfactory antithesis, that she had all the virtues Plainness has

its peculiar temptations and vices quite as n a it, to show all the

repulsiveness of discontent: at any rate, to be called an ugly thing in