she really cannot help being beautiful; and when Nature accords her

a sufficiency of dimples and an infectious laugh, I protest she is

well-nigh irresistible. And all these Margaret Hugonin had.

And surely that is enough.

I shall not endeavour, then, to picture her features to you in any

nicely picked words. Her chief charm was that she was Margaret.

And besides that, mere carnal vanities are trivial things; a gray

eye or so is not in the least to the purpose. Yet since it is the

immemorial custom of writer-folk to inventory such possessions of

their heroines, here you have a catalogue of her personal attractions.