A Fair Fraud — page 38: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 27 ‘They must be nice if they are his friends!’ she said in her loyal heart. ‘And they are so pretiy, too, Miss Lane especially, how lovely she is! her skin 1s like the inside of a shell; and what beautiful hair! such masses of it; and so has the mother quantities of hair, and of the same lovely golden colour. I suppose things like that go in families,’ added poor innocent Marion, to whom the masterpieces of London and Paris ‘artists in hair’ were unknown and undreamt-of things! ‘I really do admire them both very much—though what a queer short way Mrs Lane has of talking, and oh! what horrid things long-handled eyeglasses are! They quite frighten me. But I am very uncharitable to mind that, for I don’t suppose they would use them unless their eyesight was bad, poor things! and that must be a real trouble to anybody.’ © It will be seen indeed that Marion Blake was a very innocent little maiden. Deception under any shape was quite unknown to her, and all the airs and graces and little silly vanities of women of fashion were an entirely sealed book to her. Yet Marion Blake was a clever girl, and it will be seen that she was not at all slow to pick up life's lessons when they were placed con- spicuously before her. In fact, her eyes were opened and her perceptions quickened with an Goo 4 (G' O)