A Fair Fraud — page 35: what you’re looking at

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24 A Fair Fraud Then, with a shy dread of being caught there by herself at the front door, she ran quickly into the house and met Mrs Drury coming into the hall to receive her guests. ‘I don’t really think Mrs Lane cam be there, Aunt Fanny! They. are exactly alike—two sisters, I should say.’ But presently, when from the side window of the morning-room she peeped from behind | the curtains and watched them alight, Marion realised that the ladies were not sisters, although certainly Mrs Lane was the very youngest looking woman for her age that she had ever seen. The two were extraordinarily alike, both in face and figure, and they were beautiful © women. Their faces were flushed with exer- cise and with the frosty air, their blue eyes shone, their glossy golden hair was dressed with exquisite precision. Although they had ridden over thirty miles that day there was not a hair blown wide nor a fold out of its place from the crown of their dainty hats te the soles of their little brown Russia leather boots. And then Marion heard their voices as they came into the house, pleasant, musical- pitched voices that sounded like the clanging of silver bells. ‘Well, and I don’t really know what you must think of us, Mrs Drury, taking you by Goo C(O) Sp!