“Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.”

Mary Barton, ch. 3 (1848)

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novelist 1810–1865

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But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick farther in.”

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Variant: But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,

the pins stick further in.
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