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Now it happened that I camy

reflection in the water, even as she had done

Heretofore, though I had paid scant heed to my appearance, I had

been content (in a certain impersonal sort of way), had dressed

in the fashion, and taken advantage of such adornments as were in

favor, as

beside the brook with an to

study myself critically, feature by feature, as I had never

drea before

Mirrored in the clear waters I beheld a face lean and brown, and

with lank, black hair; eyes, dark and of a strange brilliance,

looked at me froh-bridged nose with thin, nervous nostrils, a long,

cleft chin, and a disdainful mouth

Truly, a saturnine face, cold and dark and unlovely, and thus