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might see her, and which saved her from the follies often incident to
the self-satisfied.
She considered herself a beauty; she thought, and with
reason, that she would be well worth looking at in her wedding-clothes,
but she also told herself that it was quite possible that some remarks
might be made to her disparagement if she had the wedding to which her
inclination prompted her. She longed for a white gown, veil,
bridesmaids, and the rest, but she
knew better. She knew that more could be made of her beauty a