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Griffiths
well
understood
,
though
she
was
never
quite
willing
to
admit
it
openly
,
was
that
Myra
was
not
very
good
looking
.
Her
nose
was
too
long
,
her
eyes
too
close-set
,
her
chin
not
sufficiently
rounded
to
give
her
a
girlish
and
pleasing
appearance
.
For
the
most
part
she
seemed
too
thoughtful
and
studious
--
as
a
rule
not
interested
in
the
ordinary
social
life
of
that
city
.
Neither
did
she
possess
that
savoir
faire
,
let
alone
that
peculiar
appeal
for
men
,
that
characterized
some
girls
even
when
they
were
not
pretty
.
As
her
mother
saw
it
,
she
was
really
too
critical
and
too
intellectual
,
having
a
mind
that
was
rather
above
the
world
in
which
she
found
herself
.
Brought
up
amid
comparative
luxury
,
without
having
to
worry
about
any
of
the
rough
details
of
making
a
living
,
she
had
been
confronted
,
nevertheless
,
by
the
difficulties
of
making
her
own
way
in
the
matter
of
social
favor
and
love
--
two
objectives
which
,
without
beauty
or
charm
,
were
about
as
difficult
as
the
attaining
to
extreme
wealth
by
a
beggar
.
And
the
fact
that
for
twelve
years
now
--
ever
since
she
had
been
fourteen
--
she
had
seen
the
lives
of
other
youths
and
maidens
in
this
small
world
in
which
she
moved
passing
gayly
enough
,
while
hers
was
more
or
less
confined
to
reading
,
music
,
the
business
of
keeping
as
neatly
and
attractively
arrayed
as
possible
,
and
of
going
to
visit
friends
in
the
hope
of
possibly
encountering
somewhere
,
somehow
,
the
one
temperament
who
would
be
interested
in
her
,
had
saddened
,
if
not
exactly
soured
her
.
And
that
despite
the
fact
that
the
material
comfort
of
her
parents
and
herself
was
exceptional
.
Just
now
she
had
gone
through
her
mother
's
room
to
her
own
,
looking
as
though
she
were
not
very
much
interested
in
anything
.
Her
mother
had
been
trying
to
think
of
something
to
suggest
that
would
take
her
out
of
herself
,
when
the
younger
daughter
,
Bella
,
fresh
from
a
passing
visit
to
the
home
of
the
Finchleys
,
wealthy
neighbors
where
she
had
stopped
on
her
way
from
the
Snedeker
School
,
burst
in
upon
her
.
Contrasted
with
her
sister
,
who
was
tall
and
dark
and
rather
sallow
,
Bella
,
though
shorter
,
was
far
more
gracefully
and
vigorously
formed
.
She
had
thick
brown
--
almost
black
--
hair
,
a
brown
and
olive
complexion
tinted
with
red
,
and
eyes
brown
and
genial
,
that
blazed
with
an
eager
,
seeking
light
.
In
addition
to
her
sound
and
lithe
physique
,
she
possessed
vitality
and
animation
.
Her
arms
and
legs
were
graceful
and
active
.
Plainly
she
was
given
to
liking
things
as
she
found
them
--
enjoying
life
as
it
was
--
and
hence
,
unlike
her
sister
,
she
was
unusually
attractive
to
men
and
boys
--
to
men
and
women
,
old
and
young
--
a
fact
which
her
mother
and
father
well
knew
.
No
danger
of
any
lack
of
marriage
offers
for
her
when
the
time
came
.
As
her
mother
saw
it
,
too
many
youths
and
men
were
already
buzzing
around
,
and
so
posing
the
question
of
a
proper
husband
for
her
.
Already
she
had
displayed
a
tendency
to
become
thick
and
fast
friends
,
not
only
with
the
scions
of
the
older
and
more
conservative
families
who
constituted
the
ultra-respectable
element
of
the
city
,
but
also
,
and
this
was
more
to
her
mother
's
distaste
,
with
the
sons
and
daughters
of
some
of
those
later
and
hence
socially
less
important
families
of
the
region
--
the
sons
and
daughters
of
manufacturers
of
bacon
,
canning
jars
,
vacuum
cleaners
,
wooden
and
wicker
ware
,
and
typewriters
,
who
constituted
a
solid
enough
financial
element
in
the
city
,
but
who
made
up
what
might
be
considered
the
"
fast
set
"
in
the
local
life
.
In
Mrs.
Griffiths
'
opinion
,
there
was
too
much
dancing
,
cabareting
,
automobiling
to
one
city
and
another
,
without
due
social
supervision
.
Yet
,
as
a
contrast
to
her
sister
,
Myra
,
what
a
relief
.
It
was
only
from
the
point
of
view
of
proper
surveillance
,
or
until
she
was
safely
and
religiously
married
,
that
Mrs.
Griffiths
troubled
or
even
objected
to
most
of
her
present
contacts
and
yearnings
and
gayeties
.
She
desired
to
protect
her
.
"
Now
,
where
have
you
been
?
"
she
demanded
,
as
her
daughter
burst
into
the
room
,
throwing
down
her
books
and
drawing
near
to
the
open
fire
that
burned
there
.
"
Just
think
,
Mamma
,
"
began
Bella
most
unconcernedly
and
almost
irrelevantly
.
"
The
Finchleys
are
going
to
give
up
their
place
out
at
Greenwood
Lake
this
coming
summer
and
go
up
to
Twelfth
Lake
near
Pine
Point
.
They
're
going
to
build
a
new
bungalow
up
there
.
And
Sondra
says
that
this
time
it
's
going
to
be
right
down
at
the
water
's
edge
--
not
away
from
it
,
as
it
is
out
here
.
And
they
're
going
to
have
a
great
big
verandah
with
a
hardwood
floor
.
And
a
boathouse
big
enough
for
a
thirty-foot
electric
launch
that
Mr.
Finchley
is
going
to
buy
for
Stuart
.
Wo
n't
that
be
wonderful
?
And
she
says
that
if
you
will
let
me
,
that
I
can
come
up
there
for
all
summer
long
,
or
for
as
long
as
I
like
.
And
Gil
,
too
,
if
he
will
.
It
's
just
across
the
lake
from
the
Emery
Lodge
,
you
know
,
and
the
East
Gate
Hotel
.
And
the
Phants
'
place
,
you
know
,
the
Phants
of
Utica
,
is
just
below
theirs
near
Sharon
.
Is
n't
that
just
wonderful
?
Wo
n't
that
be
great
?
I
wish
you
and
Dad
would
make
up
your
minds
to
build
up
there
now
sometime
,
Mamma
.
It
looks
to
me
now
as
though
nearly
everybody
that
's
worth
anything
down
here
is
moving
up
there
.
"
