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Whether some one had counselled Zosia to make her appearance in

such garments, or whether she knew by instinct (for a girl always

guesses by instinct what is becoming to her), suffice it to say

that this morning for the first time in her life Zosia had been

scolded for obstinacy by Telimena, since she had refused to put

on fashionable attire: at last by her tears she had prevailed on

them to let her remain in this village costume.