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 She alone saw no personal allusion, for it never struck her that anyone could think she tinted her tresses. Miss Prudence looked as angrily at the speaker as her kind face permitted. Major Jones had just said, "Eh! what's that?" when Mrs. Wilcox rose, and at her signal the ladies swept upstairs, leaving the men to cigars and scandal.