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Lady Kenilworth was the prettiest woman in England; her family, the Courcys of Faldon, was renowned1 for physical charms, and she was the loveliest of them all, exactly reproducing a famous Romney which portrayed2 the features of her great great grandmother.
She had eyes like forget-me-nots, a brilliantly fair skin, a purely3 classic profile, a mass of sunny shining hair, which needed no arts to brighten or to ripple4 it, and a carriage, which for airy grace and supreme5 distinction, had its equal nowhere among her contemporaries. Her baptismal name of Clare had been almost entirely6 abandoned by her relatives and friends, and she was always called by them Mouse, a nickname given her in nursery days when she pillaged7 her elder sisters’ bonbons8 and made raids on the early strawberry beds, and which had gained in the course of time many variations, such as Sourisette, Petit Rat, Topinetta, Fine-ears, Liebe Mus, and any other derivative9 which came to the lips of her associates.
She had a mouse painted on the panels of her village cart, stamped in silver on her note paper, mounted in gold on her riding whip, cut in chrysoprase as a charm, and made of diamonds as a locket; and many and various were the forms in which the little rodent10 was offered to her by her adorers on New Year’s Day and at Easter. She had, indeed, so identified herself with the nickname, that when she signed her name in a royal album, or to a ceremonious letter, she had great difficulty in remembering to write herself down Clare Kenilworth.
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fatality
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brutality
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