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reception the other 

 _night, the most fashionably dressed lady- 

 was Mrs. G. C. She wore a pink satin 

 dress, plain in front but with a good deal of rake to 

 it — to the train, I mean; it was said to be two 

 or three yards long. One could see it creeping 

 along the floor some little time after the woman 

 was gone. Mrs. C. wore also a white bodice, cut 

 bias, with Pompadour sleeves, flounced with 

 ruches ; low neck, with the inside handkerchief 

 not visible, tvith white kid gloves. She had on 

 a pearl necklace, which glinted lonely, high_ up 

 the midst of that barren waste of neck and 

 shoulders. Her hair was frizzled into a tangled 

 chapparel, forward of her ears, aft it was drawn 

 together, and compactly bound and plaited into 

 ~a stump like a pony's tail, and ,. furthermore was 

 canted upward at a sharp angfe, and ingeniously 

 supported by "a red velvet crupper, whose forward 

 extremity was made fast with a half-hitch around 

 a hairpin on the top of her head. Her whole 

 top hamper was neat and becoming. She had a 

 beautiful complexion when she first came, but it 

 faded out by degrees in an unaccountable way. 

 However, it is not lost for good. I found the 

 most of it on my shoulder afterwards. (I stood 

 near the door when she squeezed but with the 

 ) There were other ladies present, but I only took notes of one as a speci- 

 I would gladly enlarge upon the subject were I able to do it justice. 



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