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She entered on the world of spirits, where all secrets show revealed; and there she read, almost before she died whilst yet the black curtain of eternity was gradually rising to receive her the innocence of good Maria, and the deep-stained villany of John.
Over a yielding brown carpet they went among maple and chestnut and oak, with their bewildering changes through crimson, russet, and amber to pale yellow; under the deep-stained leaves of the sweet-gum they went, and past the dogwood with scarlet berries gemming the clusters of its dim red leaves.
Upon the left cheek there was a mouche, excessive in its size. Strangers might have commented on it. Really it covered a deep-stained birth-mark, the one blur upon a peerless beauty. Yet even this might be forgotten, as it was now. The companion of the Lady Catharine in her coach was a young woman, scarce so tall and more slender.
There was even the later addition of a conservatory sheltering itself against it, uncertain of hue in its deep-stained glass, and in its more transparent portions flashing to the sun's rays, now like fire and now like harmless water drops; which might have stood for Tattycoram.
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