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"You knohom I mean," Lena answered defiantly "And I consider Mrs

Appleton a great deal oes a great deal lect her church

duties or her charities, either She has told "

"I should say she does not neglect theild thees to society Does Mrs Lenox belong to Ram Juna's class,

Lena?"

"No Mrs Appleton asked her, but she wrote that though she was

interested in oriental thought, she, personally, found itNoasn't that snobby, Dick?"

"Is it snobbish to choose what really suits you, instead of following a

craze like a sheep wohtly If she had not will, she had obstinacy

She could be resolute in behalf of her realities, luxury, beauty and

self From the moment when Mrs Appleton first dawned on her horizon,

she had recognized her ideal Here was a woman as at once showy,

fashionable and virtuous The things that Mrs Lenox took for granted or

ignored were to her nified the

office of every detail of social conduct and every minutia of society's

"functions" It orth while to spend a week of soul-fatiguing labor

in order that a tea should be just right; and her preparations were not