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Anna had never met this new star of fashion, and was struck by

her beauty, the exaggerated extreme to which her dress was

carried, and the boldness of her manners. On her head there was

such a superstructure of soft, golden hair-her own and false

mixed-that her head was equal in size to the elegantly rounded

bust, of which so much was exposed in front. The impulsive

abruptness of her movements was such that at every step the lines

of her knees and the upper part of her legs were distinctly

marked under her dress, and the question involuntarily rose to

the mind where in the undulating, piled-up mountain of material

at the back the real body of the woman, so small and slender, so

naked in front, and so hidden behind and below, really came to an

end.

Betsy made haste to introduce her to Anna.