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Her collected, urbane self once h the opening ranks of her friends, bowing to this

side and that, with apologetic banter and graceful words of

regret--still very pale, but changed in no other respect

"A singular episode in an evening's entertain Mabel to her stand in the re-for set "I never

knew Clara to succumb before to any type of syncope or asphyxia She

is a woe And, by the way, how

preposterous is the coraphers define it as 'strong, well-strung, full of nerve,'

whereas, in ordinary parlance, it has conify the very

opposite of these When I speak of a nervous speaker or writer, for

exae quantities of strong green tea,

and sees hobgoblins peering at her through the -panes!" said

Rosa, sarcastically artless, tripping by in season to overhear this

clause of his s prevented embarrassment or

resentment at the interruption At heart, she was vexed that Rosa

should o privily and audaciously at

her practical admirer, but to betray her appreciation of the

impertinence would be to subject herself to imputations of

sensitiveness on his account