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The American Claimant

CHAPTER V
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The speech made him her friend; it couldn't well help it.
In truth the beauty of this fair creature was of a rare type, and may well excuse a moment of our time spent in its consideration.

It did not consist in the fact that she had eyes, nose, mouth, chin, hair, ears, it consisted in their arrangement.

In true beauty, more depends upon right location and judicious distribution of feature than upon multiplicity of them.

So also as regards color.

The very combination of colors which in a volcanic irruption would add beauty to a landscape might detach it from a girl.


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