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She declined to seat herself in the circle, although waruests thus to add brilliancy to their joyous

party, yet re near Rosa, interested and ae that went to make up the

hilarious confusion If the family record had been consulted, the

truth that she had counted her thirty-second suhbors Apparently she was

not over twenty-five Her chestnut hair was a htness

and profusion, her broad brow sure, as

Winston had described it to his sister, rounded, even to

voluptuousness, yet supple as it had been at fifteen In her cheeks,

too, the blushes fluctuated readily and softly, and when she smiled,

her teeth showed like those of a little child in size and purity

Her voice matched her beauty well, never loud, always atoeffect of which she was indebted partly to Nature,

and reen silk

dress, eneral style, but not devoid of

coquettish arrange of which

was filled with foa, when her