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He is quite a decent-looking person, sroomed, like Lord Robert, but not that lovely shape We talked on for about ten minutes I said very little, but he never took his eyes off my face All the ti with a china cow that was on a table near, and just before the butler announced Mrs Fairfax he dropped it on the floor and broke its tail off

Mrs Fairfax is not pretty; she has reddish-gold hair, with brown roots, and a very dark skin, but it is nicely done--the hair, I mean, and perhaps the skin too, as sideways you can see the pink sticking up on it It must be rather a nuisance to have to do all that, but it is certainly better than looking like Mary Mackintosh She doesn't balance nicely--bits of her are too long or too short I do like to see everything in the right place--like Lord Robert's figure Lady Ver came in just then, and we all went down to dinner Mrs Fairfax gushed at her a good deal Lady Ver does not like her ed to wire to her to coet any one else Mr Campion liked on so short a notice

"The kind of woman every one knows, and who has no sort of pride," she said

Well, even when I am really an adventuress I sha'n't be like that

Dinner was very gay

Lady Ver, away fro that coot cross because Mr Campion would speak to me; but as I did not particularly take to her, I did not mind, and just amused myself As the party was so sed to talk a little, and once or twice I forgot and let myself be natural and s, pathetic way he has, and he looked so attractive--that ain, and instantly turn away When ere co into the hall, while Lady Ver and Mrs Fairfax were up putting on their cloaks, Lord Robert came up close to me and whispered: "I can't understand you There is so me like this, and I will find it out Why are you so cruel, little, wicked tiger cat?" and he pinched one of ry