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Glasses

CHAPTER IX
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What _she_ says is that she'll put on anything in nature when she's married, but that she must get married first.

She has always meant to do everything as soon as she's married.

Then and then only she'll be safe.

How will any one ever look at her if she makes herself a fright?
How could she ever have got engaged if she had made herself a fright from the first?
It's no use to insist that with her beauty she can never _be_ a fright.

She said to me this morning, poor girl, the most characteristic, the most harrowing things.


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