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The Mississippi Bubble

CHAPTER II
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Upon the left cheek there was a _mouche_, excessive in its size.

Strangers might have commented on it.

Really it covered a deep-stained birth-mark, the one blur upon a peerless beauty.

Yet even this might be forgotten, as it was now.
The companion of the Lady Catharine in her coach was a young woman, scarce so tall and more slender.

The heavy hoop concealed much of the grace of figure which was her portion, but the poise of the upper body, free from the seat-back and erect with youthful strength as yet unspared, showed easily that here, too, was but an indifferent subject for Sadler's.


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