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"'You have puzzled me utterly, I said, laughing. 'Is that not enough? Won't you, now, consent to stand on equal terms and do me the kindness to remove your mask?'
'Can any request be more unreasonable?' she replied. 'Ask a lady to yield an advantage! Besides, how do you know you should recognize me? Years make changes.'
'As you see,' I said, with a bow and a melancholy little laugh."

"My poor girl did so. I had never say anyone more taken with another at first sight, unless, indeed, it was the stranger herself, who seemed quite to have lost her heart to her."

"The young stranger lowered her mask, displaying a remarkably beautiful face. I had never seen it before; neither had my dear child. But though it was new to us, the features were so engaging, as well as lovely, that it was impossible not to feel the attraction powerfully."