The Silent Woman by Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys

The advent of a girl of such rare beauty as Molly Udale possessed could not pass unremarked or unenvied by a community of less favoured members of her age and sex.

Of the fifteen girl inmates of Perrycourt fourteen had considered themselves passably comely until the arrival of the fifteenth. Then, by reason of those comparisons which an old proverb wisely assures us are "odious," they became gradually conscious of defects, or neglect on the part of Nature, hitherto unnoticed.