Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 672
QUEEN ZIXI LEFT THE HALL, ATTENDED BY HER MAIDENS. I9°5-] OR, THE STORY OF THE MAGIC CLOAK. 493 dressing-room the mirror had been banished, showed her reflection to be the old hag othersand she depended upon her maids and hair- would also have seen had not her arts of witch-dressers to make her… … of this inky mixture she swallowed two teaspoonfuls every hour for six hours. others; her maids declared it continually, and desire Zixi was able to obtain by her arts. Yet in all eyes she truly read admiration. the one thing she could not have made her very But Zixi wanted to admire herself; and…
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