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"Mrs Jasher, Miss Kendal, peros"

"I a, hat in hand, "and in turn,

allow os"

Archie was also presented to the Don and to the young lady, after which

Lucy and Mrs Jasher, while not appearing to look, h

examination of the lady ho an examination on her own account, and with the

cleverness of the sex the three wo affably, learned

all that there was to be learned from the outward appearance of each

other in three minutes Miss Kendal could not deny but what Donna Inez

was very beautiful, and frankly admitted--inwardly, of course--her own

inferiority She was merely pretty, whereas the Peruvian lady was truly

handsome and quite majestic in appearance

Yet about Donna Inez there was the same indefinite barbaric look

as characterized her father Her face was lovely, dark and proud in

expression, but there was an aloofness about it which puzzled the