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it? The Secretary of State is to give one in ten days, which is to

be the sensation of the season That of to-night is, in coeneral convention"

"I shall never put on the hateful thing again If Julia Cunningham

chooses to bedizen herself in it, she is welcome to it--flounces and

all Yet I did like it! I had hoped--but no , Mr Chilton Aunt and the rest of theo out of fashion in so short a ti her sorrow "If ht, I have seen ladies wear the same ball-dress

several times in the same winter"

"You will never see this on ain "Did you hear me advise you of the lateness of the

hour?"

"Suppose I decline appearing at all in the festal scene?" said the

gentleman "I shall not be e--then, with your per here"

Her cheeks looked as if they had been touched et vermilion,

when he resumed his place near her, and the folds of the

handkerchief in her hand hung more limply