ride in the confession — the pride of poverty that will not be ashamed of itself. But if Maggie had been the queen of coquettes she could hardly have invented a means of giving greater piquancy to her beauty in Stephen’s eyes; I am not sure that the quiet admission of plain sewing and poverty would have done alone, but assisted by the beauty, they made Maggie more unlike other women even than she had seemed at first.
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“Why, if she can remember to put the eyes very near together, and the corners of the mouth very far apart, the likeness can hardly fail to be striking in St. Ogg’s.”
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“Oh, I think he’s a perfect character!” said Lucy, with pretty enthusiasm.
“No; there I can’t agree with you,” said Stephen, shaking his head with sarcastic gravity.
“Now, what fault can you point out in him?”
“He’s an Anglican.”
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