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lin, and a muslin sleeve and ruffles were visible 

 at the wrists. The hat was very broad brimmed, 

 and was worn set back from the forehead, and 

 bent into coquettish curves, and altogether the 

 fair Diana might depend upon having a very 

 long following of astonished gazers if she should 

 ride down Beacon Street or appear in Central 

 Park to-day. 



Your habit shall not be like hers, Esmeralda, 

 but shall have a plain waist, made as long as 

 you can possibly wear it while sitting, slightly 

 pointed in front and curving upward at the side 

 to a point about half an inch below that where 

 the belt of your skirt fastens, and having a very 

 small and perfectly flat postilion, or the new 

 English round back. Elizabeth of Austria may 

 wear a princess habit, if it please her, but would 

 you, Esmeralda, be prepared, in order to have 

 your habit fit properly, to postpone buttoning 

 it until after you were placed in the saddle, as 

 she was accustomed to do in the happy days 

 when she could forget her imperial state in her 

 long wild gallops across the beautiful Irish hunt- 

 ing counties? The sleeves shall not be so tight 

 that you can feel them, nor shall the armholes 



