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or could not there be a third and judicious mixture of both of these methods ? Honora 's counsel on this and other problems was , it seems , invaluable . Her own table was fairly littered with biographies more or less famous which had been fetched from the library , and the method of each considered . Even as Mr. Garrick would never have been taken for an actor in his coach and four , so our heroine did not in the least resemble George Eliot , for instance , as she sat before her mirror at high noon with Monsieur Cadron and her maid Mathilde in worshipful attendance . Some of the ladies , indeed , who have left us those chatty memoirs of the days before the guillotine , she might have been likened to . Monsieur Cadron was an artist , and his branch of art was hair-dressing . It was by his own wish he was here to-day , since he had conceived a new coiffure especially adapted , he declared , to the type of Madame Spence .