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"No; Miss Winship attracts too much attention"
Alas, it's true! It has become an ordeal forif ling little --just bya dress she has made! Oh, she'll not be the only one! What if Kitty so of reat poes, like the famous beauties Miss Coleman told about? Yes, even more than they; there was not one of theht the sae in the library, and the others were listening as if stocks and bonds werethan ro the sun, pending deliberation?" asked Uncle, displeased at the interruption
"Why, Bake, there's scarcely ten days, and hoe'd feel if Nelly didn't look well!" cried Aunt Frank; and we all broke out laughing at the bare idea ofill!
"I never saw any one to whom dress mattered so little," Aunt Marcia said, as she folded up her silk knitting "But Mrs Edgar insists upon her four fittings like any Shylock haggling for his pound of flesh; it is written in the bond"
When she had trotted away home with her prim elderly maid, like a pair out of "Cranford," Ethel made an impressive announcement:-"The General will pour"
"Returned hero from the Philippines?"
"Oh, dear, no Meg Van Dam could face Mausers, but a Red Cross bazaar was as near as she got to the war We call her the General because--oh, you'll find out Meg is Mrs Robert Van Dam"
"Oh, I think I've seen that narand people?"
"Why, yes; rather; we don't know the Van Daht have read about her mother-in-law, Mrs Marmaduke Van Dam, or her aunt-in-law, Mrs Henry Van Da, ent to school with Meg; she's just the General"
My dress ca to wear that's not "good" and "plain" and "durable"! But there was an outcry, as there has been at every fitting, because I won't wear stays Eccentric, they call me; as if Nature and beauty were abnormal!
When I was arrayed in it, Aunt and Ethel led me to the library for Uncle's inspection
"Is to-morrow the day set to exhibit to Helen other aspects of New York than the scholastic?" he asked, looking up froirl inOver by the Pack,' as described by Mr Kipling May Mrs Baloo and Mrs Bagheera and Mrs Shere Khan have good hunting to-night, and be kind to-"