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frowned meditatively at the by no means beautiful‘reflection she saw therein.

“I cannot think what made Kilmeny suppose she was ugly, Master.”

“ Her mother told her she was,” said Eric, rather bitterly.

“ Ah!” Janet shot a quick glance at the picture of her sister. “ Was that it? Margaret was a strange woman, Master. I suppose she thought her own beauty had been a snare to her. She was bonny. That picture doesn’t do her justice. I never liked it. It was taken before she was—before she met Ronald Fraser. We none of us thought it' very like her at the time. But, Master, three years later it was like her—oh, it was like her then! That very look came in her face.”

“ Kilmeny doesn’t resemble her mother,” remarked Eric, glancing at the picture with the same feeling of mingled fascination and distaste with which he al— ways regarded it. “ Does she look like her father? ”

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