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cended. It appeared that Mr. Woods had invited certain of his
neighbors--among them a Judge Baker and his wifeand Don Caesar
Brionesof the adjacent Rancho of Los Pajarosand his sisterthe Dona
Anna. Milly and Yerba had not yet appeared. Don Caesara young man of
a toreador buildroundly bland in face and murky in eyeseemed to notice
their absenceand kept his glances towards the doorwhile Paul engaged
in conversation with Dona Anna--if that word could convey an impression
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of a conventionality which that good-humored young lady converted into
an animated flirtation at the second sentence with a single glance and two
shakes of her fan. And then Milly fluttered in--a vision of school-girl
freshness and white tulleand a moment later--with a pause of
expectation--a tallgraceful figurethat at first Paul scarcely recognized.
It is a popular conceit of our sex that we are superior to any effect of
feminine adornmentand that a pretty girl is equally pretty in the simplest
frock. Yet there was not a man in the room who did not believe that Yerba
in her present attire was not only far prettier than beforebut that she
indicated a new and more delicate form of beauty. It was not the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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