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Anne and Charlotta the Fourth accordingly betook thereen rerant as a bed of violets and golden as amber

"Oh, isn't it sweet and fresh back here?" breathed Anne "I just feel as if I were drinking in the sunshine"

"Yes, reed Charlotta the Fourth, ould have said precisely the sa if Anne had remarked that she felt like a pelican of the wilderness Always after Anne had visited Echo Lodge Charlotta the Fourth mounted to her little roolass to speak and look and move like Anne Charlotta could never flatter herself that she quite succeeded; but practice makes perfect, as Charlotta had learned at school, and she fondly hoped that in tiht catch the trick of that dainty uplift of chin, that quick, starry outflashing of eyes, that fashion of walking as if you were a bough swaying in the wind It seemed so easy when you watched Anne Charlotta the Fourth adht her so very handsome Diana Barry's beauty of crimson cheek and black curls was much more to Charlotta the Fourth's taste than Anne's ing roses of her cheeks

"But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely

Anne laughed, sipped the honey fro her coreed on Anne's looks People who had heard her called handsome met her and were disappointed People who had heard her called plain saw her and wondered where other people's eyes were Anne herself would never believe that she had any clailass all she saas a little pale face with seven freckles on the nose thereof Herplay of feeling that ca fla eyes

While Anne was not beautiful in any strictly defined sense of the word she possessed a certain evasive charm and distinction of appearance that left beholders with a pleasurable sense of satisfaction in that softly rounded girlhood of hers, with all its strongly felt potentialities

Those who knew Anne best felt, without realizing that they felt it, that her greatest attraction was the aura of possibility surrounding her