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Unfortunately the oddess, and, for

all their endeavours, they discovered only as on sale since

the owner's decease, and nothing of what had been on sale during her

lifeti The

furniture was superb; there were rosewood and buhl cabinets and tables,

Sevres and Chinese vases, Saxe statuettes, satin, velvet, lace; there

was nothing lacking

I sauntered through the roo the inquisitive ladies of

distinction They entered a roo to enter in turn, when they ca, and as if ashaer to see the roo-room, laid out with all the

articles of toilet, in which the dead woht

On a large table against the wall, a table three feet in width and six

in length, glittered all the treasures of Aucoc and Odiot It was a

nificent collection, and there was not one of those thousand little

things so necessary to the toilet of a woold or silver Such a collection could only have been got together

little by little, and the sa shocked at the sight of a kept wo every detail, and I discovered that these