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Lady Belinda leaning back upon her cushioned day-bed, glanced up from the open book before her and surveyed her niece's lovely, down-bent head with curious solicitude.
"Betty, love," said she at last, "Bet, my sweet witch, you're vapourish! So will I read to thee -- list to this," and lifting her book, Lady Belinda read as follows: "It must be granted that delicacy is essential to the composition of female beauty and that strength and robustness are contrary to the idea of it. ' Alack, Betty, dear child and my sweet, I do fear you are dreadfully robust and almost repulsively strong! Hearken again: 'The beauty of women is greatly owing to their delicacy and weakness' -- O my love, how just! I myself was ever most sincerely delicate and weak! How very, very true! " Here Lady Belinda paused, eyeing her niece expectantly, but, in place of indignant outburst, was silence; Betty sat apparently lost in mournful reverie.