Excerpt from The Grisley Suitor: A Story

Leonie Fischer had a fine disposition. Her features would be called sweet rather than beautiful. Her charm lay in the expression of her eyes and in the somewhat uplifted corners of her mouth. Seeing her, a connoisseur of human nature would be forced to admit that these charms were not transitory, but that she would be as attractive as an old woman with white hair as she was as a young girl. The shape of her head, with its crown of tightly coiled, glistening black hair, was exquisite. Her bust was small and her hips might have been larger, but she wore number three shoes, and her hands would have been pretty had she not been forced to do housework, cooking, scrubbing and washing, ever since she had left school.

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