"[...]myself for a few hours at Boston. I remember she was rather good-looking-but very shy, and not a bit like all the other girls one was seeing. Her clothes were odd, and dowdy, and too old for her altogether, -which struck me as curious, for the American girls, even the country ones, have such a natural turn for dressing themselves. Her Boston cousins didn't like it, and they tried to buy her things-but she was difficult to manage-and they had to give it up. Still they were very fond of her, I remember. Only she didn't ...
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"[...]myself for a few hours at Boston. I remember she was rather good-looking-but very shy, and not a bit like all the other girls one was seeing. Her clothes were odd, and dowdy, and too old for her altogether, -which struck me as curious, for the American girls, even the country ones, have such a natural turn for dressing themselves. Her Boston cousins didn't like it, and they tried to buy her things-but she was difficult to manage-and they had to give it up. Still they were very fond of her, I remember. Only she didn't let them show it much. Her manners were much stiffer than theirs. They said she was very countrified and simple-that she had been brought up quite alone by their old uncle, in a little country town-and hardly ever went away from home.' [...]."
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