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Rovina’s plain face 2 So, she said very good
humoredly :—

‘¢ Come, come, Rovina, not another word ;
Ilove you for one, and—and—” continued
Alice, with a funny look, ‘* I know a way
you could manage to make every body love
you, and to look beautiful to every body, too.”

‘¢ How, Alice, how ?”’

‘“¢ Why, to love every body, to be sure.”

‘¢O, no, Alice,”’ murmured Rovina, shak-
ing her head sorrowfully, “* It’s no use for me
to try that. Alice, I'll tell you all about it.
‘Tisn’t because I don’t like people, Alice ;
O, no; I do,—but, Alice,—oh, ’tis dreadful,
’tis all because I’m—lI’m so homely, Alice,
they can’t bear me.”

Alice did laugh now, outright. “* For
shame on you, Rovina,”’ she exclaimed in her
own cheerful voice, ‘‘ who cares, whether
your eyes are blue or green if they only look