10/12 It is beautiful." "Ugly, you mean." "No, no, Mrs.Bertram.With all due deference to your superior taste I cannot agree with you. The features are classical, the eyes a little wild and defiant, but capable of much expression. The hair of the admired Rossetti type." "Oh, spare me, Rector, spare me. I don't mean this low girl's outward appearance. It is that which I feel is within which makes her altogether ugly to me." "Ah, poor child--women have intuitions, and you may be right. |