Natt had good reasons besides the highborn air and delicate beauty of the child to believe that it was at least of gentle blood and birth.
When first Polly washed and dressed it, she found, to her surprise, tatooed just below the left breast the letters M. A., surmounted by an earl’s coronet, and beneath was a date, April 2, 18—.
She had shown this to Natt, who said that in foreign parts the natives, he heard, were very fond of tatooing their skins, but why an English baby should be marked thus he could not conceive.
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