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     Kilmeny of the Orchard 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Aunt Janet to his wagon the spring after 
     
     mother died. He stared at me so. I knew 
     
     it was because he thought me so ugly, and 
     
     I have always hidden when he came ever 
     
     since.” 
     
    

    
     Eric’s lips twitched. In spite of his 
     
     pity for the real suifering displayed in her 
     
     eyes, he could not help feeling amused 
     
     over the absurd idea of this beautiful girl 
     
     believing herself in all seriousness to be 
     
     ugly. 
     
    

    
     “ But, Kilmeny, do you think yourself 
     
     ugly when you look in a mirror“? ” he 
     
     asked smiling. 
     
    

    
     “ I have never looked in a mirror,” she 
     
     wrote. “ I never knew there was such a 
     
     thing until after mother died, and I read 
     
     about it in a book. Then I asked Aunt 
     
     Janet and she said mother had broken all 
     
     the looking glasses in the house when I 
     
     was a baby. But I have seen my face re— 
     
     flected in the spoons, and in a little silver 
     
     sugar bowl Aunt Janet has. And it is 
     
     ugly—very ugly.” 
     
    

    
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