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Maggie felt an unexpected pang. She had thought beforehand chiefly at her own deliverance from her teasing hair and teasing remarks about it, and something also of the triumph she should have over her mother and her aunts by this very decided course of action; she didn’t want her hair to look pretty — that was out of the question — she only wanted people to think her a Salomon XA Pro 4D GTX Kengät clever little girl, and not to find fault with her. But now, when Tom began to laugh at her, and say she was New Balance 1500 Mens like an idiot, the affair had quite a new aspect. She looked in the glass, and still Tom laughed and clapped his hands, and Maggie’s cheeks began to pale, and her lips to tremble a little.
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