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Queechy, Volume II by Elizabeth Wetherell
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"Well, Cornelia Schenck — how do you like her face?"

"It is very pretty-featured."

"Pretty-featured! Why, she is called beautiful! She has a
beautiful smile, Mr. Carleton!"

"She has only one."

"Only one! and how many smiles ought the same person to have?"
cried Florence, impatiently. But that which instantly answered
her said forcibly, that a plurality of them was possible.

"I have seen one face," he said, gravely, and his eye seeking
the floor, "that had, I think, a thousand."

"Different smiles!" said Mrs. Evelyn, in a constrained voice.

"If they were not all absolutely that, they had so much of
freshness and variety that they all seemed new."

"Was the mouth so beautiful?" said Florence.

"Perhaps it would not have been remarked for beauty when it
was perfectly at rest, but it could not move with the least
play of feeling, grave or gay, that it did not become so in a
very high degree. I think there was no touch or shade of
sentiment in the mind that the lips did not give with singular
nicety; and the mind was one of the most finely wrought I have
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