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could not extinguish; her nose was exactly

regular; and her mouth, in which were two rows of ivory, exactly answered sir John Suckling's description in these lines:—

'Her lips were red, and one was thin,
'Compar'd to that was next her chin,
'Some bee had stung it newly.'

Her cheeks were of the oval kind; and in her right she had a dimple, which the least smile discovered. Her chin had certainly its share in forming the beauty of her face; but it was difficult to say it was either large or small, though, perhaps, it was rather of the former kind.—Her mind was every way equal to her person; nay, the latter borrowed some charms of the former: for when she smiled, the sweetness of her temper diffused that glory over her countenance, which no regularity of features can give."

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