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Lady Prue was the plain, elder daughter of a most beautiful mother.
She had been so accustomed from early childhood to hearing her plainness commented upon that she had come to accept the fact without any doubt at all as to the justice of it. Her mother had never seemed to regard her little daughter as a sensitive being when she had said to her friends and acquaintances, the children being brought into the drawing-room for five minutes--