[Emily Fox-Seton by Frances Hodgson Burnett]@TWC D-Link bookEmily Fox-Seton CHAPTER Twenty 14/29
You know she always _did_ carry her head well, even when she was nothing but poor Miss Fox-Seton tramping about shopping with muddy feet.
And now, having been a marchioness till she's got used to it, and knowing that she is one, gives her an innocent, stately look sometimes.
It's a thing she doesn't know of herself, but I do declare that sometimes as she's sat there talking just as sweet as could be, I've felt as if I ought to say, 'Oh! if you please, my lady, if you _could_ look not quite so much as if you'd got on a tiara.'" "Ah!" and Mrs.Cupp shook her head, "but that's what her Maker did for her.
She was born just what she looks, and she looks just what she was born,--a respectable female." Whereby Dr.Warren continued to feel himself baffled. "She only goes out for exercise after dark, Mary," he said.
"Also in the course of conversation I have discovered that she believes every word of the Bible literally, and would be alarmed if one could not accept the Athanasian Creed.
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