DELICIA - DELIGHT -
When Lady Mamala, who turned out to be a very kindly sensible woman in the early forties, came to pay her promised call, she did bring her eldest daughter with her, and Elizabeth had leisure to observe Patrick's charmer.
Miss Mamala was not long out of the school room, and had all the natural shyness of her Seventeen years. She regarded Elizabeth out of a pair of large dove-like eyes with a great deal of awe, colored a little when directly addressed, and allowed her soft mouth to tremble into a fugitive, appealing smile. She had pretty brown girls, and a neat figure, but to Elizabeth, who was built on Junoesque lines, she could not seem other than short.
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