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 | | Her letters to Ebba Sparre about this time exhibit a marked change of tone, indicating that in the midst of daily concerts, masquer- ades, and plays, she was beginning to feel that all was vanity, and to sigh, as the roughest and least loving and lovable of mankind will sometime sigh, for quiet sympathy. |
 | | Her dress was a short gray petticoat, laced with gold and silver, a flame-colored doublet, also laced with gold; a lace cravat, and a fl hat, with a plume of feathers. |
 | | Her parents, who were poor, concluded she was an idiot and, while suffi- ciently attached to her to desire not to expose her to observation, and the trouble of being meddled with, left her to nature, as they said which, in her case, meant everything that was dreadful and disgusting. |
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