She carefully removed a little dust from the polished surface , and frowned meditatively at the by no means beautiful reflection she saw therein . `` I can not think what made Kilmeny suppose she was ugly , Master . '' `` Her mother told her she was , '' said Eric , rather bitterly . `` Ah ! '' Janet shot a quick glance at the picture of her sister . `` Was that it ? Margaret was a strange woman , Master . I suppose she thought her own beauty had been a snare to her . She WAS bonny . That picture does n't do her justice . I never liked it . It was taken before she was -- before she met Ronald Fraser . We none of us thought it very like her at the time . But , Master , three years later it was like her -- oh , it was like her then ! That very look came in her face . '' `` Kilmeny does n't resemble her mother , '' remarked Eric , glancing at the picture with the same feeling of mingled fascination and distaste with which he always regarded it . `` Does she look like her father ? '' `` No , not a great deal , though some of her ways are very like his . She looks like her grandmother -- Margaret 's mother , Master . Her name was Kilmeny too , and she was a handsome , sweet woman .
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