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In the Year of Jubilee

CHAPTER 1
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Beneath a loose thin dressing-gown her feet, in felt slippers, showed stockingless, her neck was bare almost to the bosom, and the tresses of pale yellow, upon which she especially prided herself, lay raggedly pinned together on the top of her flat head.

She was about twenty-eight years old, but at present looked more than thirty.

Her features resembled Fanny's, but had a much less amiable expression, and betokened, if the thing were possible, an inferior intellect.

Fresh from the morning basin, her cheeks displayed that peculiar colourlessness which results from the habitual use of paints and powders; her pale pink lips, thin and sullen, were curiously wrinkled; she had eyes of slate colour, with lids so elevated that she always seemed to be staring in silly wonder.
'So you've got breakfast, have you ?' were her first words, in a thin and rather nasal voice.

'You may think yourselves lucky.' 'You have a cheek of your own,' replied Beatrice.


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