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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Transfiguration of Miss Philura, by Florence Morse Kingsley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Transfiguration of Miss Philura Author: Florence Morse Kingsley Release Date: February 17, 2009 [EBook #28102] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRANSFIGURATION OF MISS PHILURA *** Produced by Annie McGuire THE TRANSFIGURATION OF MISS PHILURA [Illustration: Mrs. Smart's Theme was Thought Forces and the Infinite [_See page 18_] THE TRANSFIGURATION OF MISS PHILURA _By_ FLORENCE MORSE KINGSLEY _THIRTEENTH EDITION_ FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY FLORENCE M. KINGSLEY _Registered at Stationers' Hall, London, England_ [PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA] Hour-Glass Stories Edition. Published March, 1902 * * * * * CHAPTER ONE Miss Philura Rice tied her faded bonnet-strings under her faded chin with hands that trembled a little; then she leaned forward and gazed anxiously at the reflection which confronted her. A somewhat pinched and wistful face it was, with large, light-lashed blue eyes, arched over with a mere pretense at eyebrows. More than once in her twenties Miss Philura had ventured to eke out this scanty provision of Nature with a modicum of burned match stealthily applied in the privacy of her virgin chamber. But the twenties, with their attendant dreams and follies, were definitely past; just how long past no one knew exactly--Miss Philura never informed the curious on this point. As for the insufficient eyebrows, they symbolized, as it were, a meagre and restricted life, vaguely acknowledged as the dispensation of an obscurely hostile but consistent Providence; a Providence far too awful and exalted--as well as hostile--to interest itself benignantly in so small and neutral a personality as stared back at her from the large, dim mirror of Cousin Maria Van Deuser's third-story back bedroom. Not that Miss Philura ever admitted such dubious thoughts to the select circle of her conscious reflections; more years ago than she cared to count she had grappl
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