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of young ladies so graphically described in 

 "Vanity Fair." 



"Miss Halice," she would say to the eldest 

 little totterer in the nursery, " you should con- 

 sider the dignity and the importance of the 

 position you hold as the eldest daughter of this 

 house." "Miss Minnie/' she would address 

 the other little female, scarcely out of arms, 

 " you should early learn to look up to Miss 

 Halice for example and guidance." To both, 

 as they toddled down stairs to dessert, "Young 

 ladies, I hope you will not forget the manners you 

 learn here, or do discredit to my nurturing." 



But it was in her care of the boy of the 

 establishment that the grandeur of Celery's 

 ideas of the present and her mysterious pre- 

 dictions of the future were developed in all 

 their full-blown beauty. To see her parade 

 " Master 'Arry," as she called him, up and 

 down Prince's Street ! One morning, it being 

 very cold, she had sensibly wrapped the little 

 thing's head up in a woollen nightcap, and an 

 inquisitive young lady insisted upon stopping 

 her, and begging to see so fine a child. " No, 

 mem ; not to-day, if you please, mem. He is 

 not got up as such a hinfant should be — he 

 has not got his hat and feathers on." Another 

 time, when he had his hat and feathers on. 



