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     self exteriorly. Janet was somewhat 
     
     dubious at first. 
     
    

    
     ' “ There hasn’t been such a thing in the 
     
     house for sixteen years, Master. There 
     
     never was but three—one in the spare 
     
     room, and a little one in the kitchen, and 
     
     Margaret’s own. She broke them all the 
     
     day it first struck her that Kilmeny was 
     
     going to be bonny. I might have got 
     
     one after she died maybe. But I didn’t 
     
     think of it; and there’s no need of lasses 
     
     to be always prinking at their looking 
     
     glasses.” 
     
    

    
     But Eric pleaded and argued skilfully, 
     
     and finally Janet said, 
     
    

    
     “ Well, well, have your own way. 
     
     You’d have it anyway I think, lad. You 
     
     are one of those men who always get their 
     
     own way. But that is different from the 
     
     men who take their own way—and that’s 
     
     a mercy,” she added under her breath. 
     
    

    
     Eric went to town the next Saturday 
     
     and picked out a mirror that pleased him. 
     
     He had it shipped to Radnor and Thomas 
     
    
   
   
    
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