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On Sunday, according to invitation, as I told you, we dined with the

Argents--and were entertained by them in a style at onceI shall not attempt to describe the

consumable materials of the table, but call your attention, my dear

friend, to the intellectual portion of the entertainenial to your delicate and refined character

Mrs Argent is a lady of considerable personal nitude, of an open and

affable disposition In this respect, indeed, she bears a striking

resemblance to her nephew, Captain Sabre, hose relationship to her

ere unacquainted before that day She received us as friends in whom

she felt a peculiar interest; for when she heard that ot

her dress and reatest

astonishment, and told us, that it was not at all a place where persons

of fashion could expect to be properly served Nor can I disguise the

fact, that the flounced and gorgeous garniture of our dresses was in

shocking contrast to the ahter, a char the

fashionable splendour in which she has been educated, displays a

delightful sprightliness of ether lost on the heart of -room, after dinner, Miss