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"That is a new appearance"

"Who can she be?"

"Unique--is she not?" were queries bandied frouests scattered through the extensive

parlors of the ton hotels, at the

entrance of a company of five or six late arrivals All the persons

coe of people of

noteworthy about

any of theest of the three ladies of what

seeroup When they stopped for consultation upon

their plans for this, their first evening in the capital, directly

beneath the central chandelier of the largest drawing-room, she

stood, unintentionally, perhaps, upon the outside of the little

circle, and not exerting herself to feign interest in the parley,

sought amusement in a keen, but polite survey of the asselances she

encountered in return

If she were always in the same looks she wore just now, she must

have been pretty well inured to batteries of admiration by this date

in her sunny life She was below the medium of woman's stature,

round and pliant in forypsy

but with a clear skin that let the rise and fall of the blood