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Drake glanced toward Nell, saw that she was surrounded, exchanged a

s roo cattle and horses, when

Drake heard a carriage drive up

"That's the Chesney people, I dare say," said Sir William, and

continued to dilate on a new rule which he was anxious that the

Agricultural Society should adopt, and Drake and he discussed it

exhaustively

Nell had just finished a dance when she saw Lady Maltby hurry across the

room to receive four persons, two ladies and two men, who had just

arrived It was the belated Chesney party Their entrance attracted a

good deal of attention, and Nell herself was startled into interest and

curiosity by the appearance of one of the new arrivals She thought that

she had never iined--she had certainly never seen--so beautiful a

wonificently dressed

A professional beauty in all her war paint is somewhat of a rara avis in

a quiet country house, and this professional beauty was the acknowledged

queen of her tribe Her hair shone like gold, and it had been dressed by

a maid who had acquired her art at the hands of a famous Parisian

coiffeur; her complexion, of a delicate ivory, was tinted with the blush