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"Oh, but it has. Like Esther, the queen, I have put on royal apparel for
an ulterior object. Did you notice that I had made myself as terrible as
an army with banners?"
"I thought you were looking unusually lovely," replied the Judge
gracefully. "But you are always so handsome that I suspected no guile."
Corinna laughed merrily. "But I am full of guile, dear innocent! I go
forth to conquer."
"Not the Governor, I hope?"
"Oh, no, the Governor is nothing--a prize, nothing more. My antagonist
is Mrs. Stribling."
"Rose Stribling?" The Judge was mildly astonished. "Why, I remember her
as a little girl in white dresses."
Corinna's smile became scornful. "Well, she isn't a little girl any
longer, and she oughtn't to be in white dresses."
"Dear me, dear me," rejoined the old gentleman. "I am aware that you
have a dramatic temperament, but it is scarcely possible that you are
jealous of little Rose. She is a good deal younger than you, if I am not
mistaken--but my memory is not all that it once was.


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