I returned in the evening , and when I saw her first she was standing under the chandelier in the drawing room . Talk about spirits ! For five seconds I thought I had seen one . `` Miriam was a beauty . I had known that before , though I think I hardly expected to see such wonderful loveliness . She was tall and extremely graceful , dark -- at least her hair was dark , but her skin was wonderfully fair and clear . Her hair was gathered away from her face , and she had a high , pure , white forehead , and the straightest , finest , blackest brows . Her face was oval , with very large and dark eyes . `` I soon realized that Miriam was in some mysterious fashion different from other people . I think everyone who met her felt the same way . Yet it was a feeling hard to define . For my own part I simply felt as if she belonged to another world , and that part of the time she -- her soul , you know -- was back there again . `` You must not suppose that Miriam was a disagreeable person to have in the house . On the contrary , it was the very reverse . Everybody liked her . She was one of the sweetest , most winsome girls I ever knew , and I soon grew to love her dearly . As for what Dick called her ` little queernesses ' -- well , we got used to them in time . `` Miriam was engaged , as I have told you , to a young Harvard man named Sidney Claxton . I knew she loved him very deeply . When she showed me his photograph , I liked his appearance and said so .
Then I made some teasing remark XXXXX her love-letters -- just for a joke , you know .
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