“You do not know — how should you? What I think of you! Satisfied? Pleased? Good Heavens — what little words those are to express my feeling! I can tell you how you look, for nothing can ever make you vain. You are beautiful! . . . You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and you look your very best to-night. But you are more than beautiful — you are good and pure and true, while society is —.”
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