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"I am completely
ignorant on the subject of facial massage."
"Not much, I should think," continued Garth, "or she would not have
told us."

"Ah, you are wrong there," replied Jane, quickly. "Myra is
extraordinarily honest, and always inclined to be frank about
herself and her foibles. She had a curious upbringing. She is one of
a large family, and was always considered the black sheep, not so
much by her brothers and sisters, as by her mother. Nothing she was,
or said, or did, was ever right. When Lord Ingleby met her, and I
suppose saw her incipient possibilities, she was a tall, gawky girl,
with lovely eyes, a sweet, sensitive mouth, and a what-on-earth-am-
I-going-to-do-next expression on her face. He was twenty years her
senior, but fell most determinedly in love with her and, though her
mother pressed upon him all her other daughters in turn, he would
have Myra or nobody. When he proposed to her it was impossible at
first to make her understand what he meant.


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