"What upon earth!" she exclaimed, stopping short, and then
bursting into a loud laugh at the comical appearance which Dora
presented; for Eugenia had cut close to the head, leaving the hair
so uneven that shingling seemed the only alternative, and to this
poor Dora finally submitted. When at last the performance was
ended, and she glanced at herself in the mirror, she burst into a
paroxysm of tears, while Alice tried to soothe her by saying that
it really would eventually benefit her hair, and that she would
not always look so strangely.
But Dora, who began to suspect that it was pure selfishness on
Eugenia's part which had prompted the act, felt keenly the
injustice done her, and refused to be comforted, keeping her room
the entire day, and weeping until her eyelids were nearly
blistered. Meantime, Eugenia had hurried off to the city with her
ill-gotten treasure, on which the miserly old Jew, to whom it was
offered, looked with eager longing eyes, taking care, however, to
depreciate its value, lest his customer should expect too much.
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