I never saw anybody with more natural style.

Why, you can put on those slouchy things without a piece of corset and look as if you'd just stepped out of a fashion plate." "When you aren't pretty, you're obliged to be smart." "Well, of course you never had the small features and pink and white colouring that Jane had; but you always had a way of your own even as a girl, and you're handsomer now than you ever were in your life.

If you were to ask Mr.O'Hara, I bet you he'd say you were a heap better lookin' than Fanny." A gasp broke from Gabriella, and she turned from the mirror to stare blankly at the seamstress.

"Mr.O'Hara! Why, what in the world made you think of him ?" But Miss Polly had grown suddenly impenetrable.

"Oh, nothin'," she responded evasively; "I've just seen him look at you both when you were together." Gabriella laughed brightly.