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"I mean very much the same thing that any man who is willing to sacrifice his interest to get possession of a pretty face is a fool. Pretty faces are to be had cheaper than that. I hate your mawkish sentimentality, Lotte.
"Look at that, Lotte; isn't it the little man all over, apron and all? I'd go on with my profession at once, as you call it, if the governor would set me up with a studio in London; but as to sculpture at Barchester I suppose half the people here don't know what a torso means." "The governor will not give you a shilling to start you in London," said Lotte.
Even the compliment did not soften the asperity of the maimed beauty. 'Every woman is charming according to Lotte, she said; 'I never knew an eye with so little true appreciation. In the first place, what woman on earth could look well in such a thing as that she had on her head? 'Of course she wears a widow's cap; but she'll put that off when Bertie marries her.
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