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Her face had the usual fulness of expression which is developed by a

life of solitude Where the eyes of a multitude beat like waves upon a

countenance they seem to wear away its individuality; but in the still

water of privacy every tentacle of feeling and sentiment shoots out in

visible luxuriance, to be interpreted as readily as a child's look by

an intruder In years she was nothought at a too early period of life had forced

the provisional curves of her childhood's face to a premature finality

Thus she had but little pretension to beauty, save in one prominent

particular--her hair Its abundance , and as seen here by firelight, brown, but

careful notice, or an observation by day, would have revealed that its

true shade was a rare and beautiful approxiift of Time to the particular victim of his now

before us the new-coht handup from his

waistcoat-pocket--the bows of a pair of scissors, whose polish ht within In her present beholder's

irlish spar-maker composed itself into a

post-Raffaelite picture of extreirl's hair

alone, as the focus of observation, was depicted with intensity and

distinctness, and her face, shoulders, hands, and figure in general,