Soon
recovering her composure, however, she motioned her cousin from
the room, and, resuming her pen, said to herself, "I shan't write
all that nonsense about his coming home, for nobody wants him
here; but the love and the hair may as well go."
Then, as she saw how much of the latter Dora had brought, she
continued, "There's no need of sending all this. It would make
beautiful hair ornaments, and I mean to keep a part of it; Dora
won't care, of course, and I shall tell her."
Dividing off a portion of the hair for her own use, she laid it
aside, and then in a postscript wrote, "Dora sends"--here she
paused; and thinking that "Dora's _love_" would please the
old man too much, and possibly give him too favorable an opinion
of his niece, she crossed out the "sends," and wrote, "Dora wishes
to be remembered to you, and sends for your acceptance a lock of
her mother's hair."
Thus was the letter finished, and the next mail which left Dunwood
bore it on its way to India, Eugenia little thinking how much it
would influence her whole future life.
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