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and hairdressers since then She had laid aside every article brought

from home She wore her hair in puffs and waterfalls, and her dresses

in the latest mode She had seen the fashionable world as represented

at Saratoga, and, sickening at the sight, had gladly acquiesced in her

aunt's proposal to go on to Newport, where the air was purer and the

hotels not so densely packed She had been called a beauty and a

belle, but her heart was longing for the leafy woods and fresh green

fields of Hanover; and Newport, she fancied, would be a, and never since leaving ho after her arrival

at the Ocean House, when invigorated by the bath she had taken in the

lorious sea and the soothing

tones it murmured in her ear, she came down to the parlor clad in

simple white, with only a bunch of violets in her hair, and no other

ornaiven to her Standing

at the open ith the drapery of the lace curtain sweeping

gracefully behind her, she did not look much like the Anna who led the

choir in Hanover and visited the Widow Hobbs, nor yet s had forirl who he kneas

there for his inspection He had been absent the entire day, and had

not seen Mrs Meredith, when she arrived early in the e smile curled his lip as he

said: "And so I have not escaped her"