"She has
such lovely eyes, and then her face has so much expression," she
would say; but Dinah had the good sense to keep this opinion to
herself.
Elizabeth, who was not at all vain, and was quite conscious of her
own defects, continued to gaze at her own reflection rather
critically.
"I suppose on the whole I am passable, Die," she said rather
philosophically. "When people like me they seem to like my looks;
and really when you think of all the plain and downright ugly people
in the world, there is surely room for thankfulness." "Have you just
found that out, Betty?"
"My dear Die, I am rather in a humble frame of mind just now. Don't
you recollect my telling you Mrs. Robinson's speech last Monday. I
have never thought quite so much of myself since."
"If I remember rightly, Mrs. Robinson paid you a compliment. She
told Miss Clarkson that she wished Selina were as fine a woman as
Elizabeth Templeton."
"And you call that compliment!" and Elizabeth arched her long full
throat in rather a haughty and swanlike manner. "Fancy that goose of
a Miss Clarkson repeating such a speech.
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