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Along the wide straight street of the city surged the usual shopping

crowd Largely petticoated was it, for o'daytimes man e of going shopping Surely

there is no other stream in the orld that is socurrent The same types, the saments that catch the ear And seldom

does one see a face that looks even cheerful,ribbons

"The world is toowe lay waste our powers"

Thus ht they cry aloud, if they were conde banner of bat-like souls that Dante saw passing in

similar fashion beneath his eye

And yet, in spite of its

to itself Therefore a, and the

anxious-eyed, one girl loitered on dilatory foot fromto

"Girl" seems an inadequate word to describe Lena Quincy It may be

applied to any youthful feroomed shabbiness, was by no means one of the herd She

affected one like a bit of Tiffany glass, shiliness in her surroundings could take away that

impression

Every one who looked at her at all looked twice She had grown so used

to this tribute that it hardly affected her unless it came from one who

from one to another of the ladies with the waxen