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cesses, that to-day shall all be abandoiaed. 

 Why they have beer, singled out for this 

 austere dut}-, by what lav,", or by v%-hom, 

 it is not in our pover to divine. To 

 this mission of theirs they remain in- 

 flexibly, tranquilly faithful ; and thou?h I 

 have many times tried the experim.ent of 

 sprinkling a colouring matter over one of 

 these resigned Cinderellas, that are m,ore- 

 over easily to be distinguished in the midst 

 of the rejoicing crov/ds by their serious and 

 somev/hat ponderous gait, it is rarely indeed 

 that I have found one of them in the 

 delirious throng c^f the sv/arm. 



And yet, the anraction miust seem 

 irresistible. It is the ecstasy of the per- 



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