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-- she would have remained ignorant and common with all her beauty . He almost starved himself in order to send her to a good school and give her pretty clothes . '' `` I know , I know , it seems terribly ungrateful -- but perhaps she 's excited over her first dinner . '' That evening we were to give our first formal dinner , and when I came downstairs a little before eight o'clock , I found the rooms a bower of azaleas , over which the pink-shaded lamps shed a light that touched Jessy 's lace gown with pale rose . `` It 's like fairyland , is n't it ? '' she said , `` and the table is so beautiful . Come and see the table . ''