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It certainly was the very ugliest doll you ever saw. It hadn't a bit of wax about it. It was a rag doll, a brown rag doll with black woolly hair, beads for eyes, and -- horror of horrors -- a ring through its nose! Then its clothes -- no pretty pink frock and clean pinafore, no clothes to take off and on -- it had only a black fur rug round its waist.
Mollie was nearly in tears as she stared at it, and Geoffrey's cheeks were very red.