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Rh print of a richly variegated pattern, and a crimson shawl, whose folds she well knew how to manage, fell around her like drapery;—she also wore a pair of large gold earrings, an ornament suiting well with her peculiar and stately bearing. The highest praise that have been bestowed on the house-keeper's appearance was that of a neat, cheerful, and respectable old woman;—but the Indian appealed to the imagination, and might well have past for some captive Queen, grown aged in captivity. The dignity of misfortune was around her, for Eda had known much sorrow, and much suffering.

Beside these two representatives of advanced age, were those who as yet were but entering life, in all its freshness and its beauty. The twins were uncommonly lovely children. India gave its lustre and its darkness to their large black eyes, and England its rosy fairness to their complexion; while a profusion of glossy auburn hair hung down in thick curls to the waist. They were alike, only Julia was taller, and had more