3/22 "She has no sympathy," said Mrs.Thesiger.Moreover, she would grow up, and she would grow up in beauty and in freshness. She kept her dressed in a style which suited a younger girl, or rather, which would have suited a younger girl had it been less decorative and extreme. She followed her usual practice and shut her mind to the things which displeased her so completely, that they ceased to trouble her. But Mrs.Thesiger never knew that secret; and often, when in the midst of her chatter she threw a glance at the elaborate figure of her daughter, sitting apart with her lace skirts too short, her heels too high, her hat too big and too fancifully trimmed, she would see her madonna-like face turned toward her, and her dark eyes thoughtfully dwelling upon her. |