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The Europeans

CHAPTER II
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Presently she looked down at the front of her dress.

"Does n't it seem to you, somehow, as if my scarf were too long ?" she asked.
Gertrude walked half round her, looking at the scarf.

"I don't think you wear it right," she said.
"How should I wear it, dear ?" "I don't know; differently from that.

You should draw it differently over your shoulders, round your elbows; you should look differently behind." "How should I look ?" Charlotte inquired.
"I don't think I can tell you," said Gertrude, plucking out the scarf a little behind.

"I could do it myself, but I don't think I can explain it." Charlotte, by a movement of her elbows, corrected the laxity that had come from her companion's touch.


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