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the floor, pins and curling-tongs and bottles on the toilet-table, and jewel-cases on the chairs. Euphronia was sitting before the mirror trying to arrange her hair over a great frame that rose a foot above her forehead; and as there was so little of it, she was having considerable difficulty. She was already dressed in her red velvet gown with green stockings and gold shoes, and she looked rather like a very large and brilliantly coloured cockatoo.