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"But tell me how it is that she could be so beautiful without any heart

at all--without any place even for a heart to live in"

"I cannot quite tell," she said; "but I am sure she would not look so

beautiful if she did not take means to make herself look an by being in love with

her before you saw her beauty, ether, I should think But the chief thing

that h she loves no man, she

loves the love of any man; and when she finds one in her power, her

desire to bewitch hiain his love (not for the sake of his love

either, but that she h the admiration he manifests), h; for it is that which is constantly

wearing her aithin, till, at last, the decay will reach her face,

and her whole front, when all the lovelywill fall to

pieces, and she be vanished for ever So a wise o, and who, I think, for all his wisdom, fared no

better than you, told ht here,

and recounted to me his adventures"