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Miss Valentine Decarron was one of those people who speak their minds, which practice argues either financial independence, unusual business capacity, or, in a woman, remarkable personal attraction. For only the wealthy, the capable, or the pretty can afford the luxury of saying right out just what they think, and blow the consequence.
Miss Decarron -- pronounced Dek-a-run -- had the inestimable advantage of being well off in her own right, of being immensely capable, self-sufficient, and beautiful. She had wonderful grey eyes, very large, and shaded with thick curly lashes. She had a milk-and-rose complexion, a somewhat retrousse nose, and a perfectly-modelled mouth and chin.