She looked her very best. Charlotte knew exactly what that meant: not like a ravishing goddess, but like the profile of a Roman coin. May always said her nose was refined. It was a nice shape, but far too long. “It makes you look intelligent,” Mama said. “No one wants an insipid miss for a wife.”
It seemed they didn’t want a Roman coin, either.
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