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This is a Dickens character, from David Copperfield. A strange, vitriolic woman, Miss Rosa Dartle suffers unrequited love for David's friend James Steerforth. She is described as being extremely skinny and displays a visible scar on her lip caused by Steerforth.
"I don’t know what it was, in her touch or voice, that made that song the most unearthly I have ever heard in my life, or can imagine. There was something fearful in the reality of it. It was as if it had never been written, or set to music, but sprung out of the passion within her; which found imperfect utterance in the low sounds of her voice, and crouched again when all was still. I was dumb when she leaned beside the harp again, playing it, but not sounding it, with her right hand."
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