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"Madame de Genlis! Madame de Genlis!" shouted laughing voices

through the door.

The handsome Vera, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant

effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had

been said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair

and scarf. Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become

still colder and calmer.

In the drawing room the conversation was still going on.