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Updated: May 14, 2025
But she obeyed without a word, after one backward start and then a brief hovering in decision of thumb and forefinger over my held-out hand. I had fixed it in my mind that if she drew the shorter of the matches, then she should die; if the longer, then I should die. She drew the shorter.... This was only what I should have expected: for I knew that God loved her, and hated me.
"Could you find me a pair of scissors, Vincent?" She had been quick to learn that beauty must be obeyed. She would have asked Vincent for the moon if she had happened to want it, and would have seen him depart on the errand without qualm. Sure enough, he brought the scissors before her held-out hand had grown tired. "Cut off my hair," she said, "level with my shoulders."
Her eye glanced uncertainly, and she approached with daintiness, like one stepping on mined ground. "Aunt Flora, I must have just a minute." "I know no reason against your having ten, if you want them," said Lady Henry, as she held-out three fingers to the new-comer. "You promised yesterday to come and give me a full account of the Devonshire House ball.
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