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CHAPTER XVII.
CONFESSIONS.
As I am in the way of confessions, I may as well acknowledge that, about this time, I paid more attention to dress than ever I had done before. . .this is not saying much, for hitherto I had been a little neglectful in that particular. . .but now, also, it was no uncommon thing to spend as much as two minutes in the contemplation of my own image in the glass; though I never could derive any consolation from such a study: I could discover no beauty in those marked features, that pale hollow cheek, and ordinary dark brown hair; there
