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The Besieged City Ada Blanche Pryer But something unexpected happened at'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself' Lucrcia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrcia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its