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Such was Lena in the first e The world's warmth

welcomed her, partly in curiosity, and partly because she was in truth

Richard Percival's wife, and the protégée of Mrs Lenox, who took every

pains to shield her and help her The ways of that little sphere that

calls itself society she found it not difficult to acquire, when to

beauty she added the paraphernalia of luxury A little trick of holding

oneself, a turn of speech, a fas, and the thing is accoirl, whose supreme characteristic is adaptability, who could

not learn it in a few months, if she set herinside, which is the

knowledge that there are outsiders raging to s, did Madame Cecropia, and the only wonder was that she was

ever packed away in the dull gray chrysalis And now every one forgot

that ugly thing, when Lena changed her sky but not her heart

Dick and she lived in a whirl; and if he would have liked, after

strenuous days spent in spreading political feelers, to have found at

ho that the