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THE SEA-SERPENT. 
the weeper ? They told, besides, that they had 
been on a cruise to find the cruel snake, and had 
come to Newport for aid and men, and hoped 
that all would a crusade make to catch him. 
u And so we will ! ” cried all ; u but wait till 
after the fancy ball.” 
hi. 
There is a class, — ’t is rapidly increasing 
within this empire that we proudly hold, — who, 
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toiling on, with labor never ceasing, have won at 
last in heaps the glittering gold ; — these go to 
Newport. There you find assembled bright eyes ; 
wealth, beauty, genius, fashion ; fair belles, before 
whose wit some men have trembled, and sought in 
vain to soothe love’s gentle passion, until at last, 
by sympathy grown tender, they at the altar mu¬ 
tually surrender. Newport was now in great 
commotion ; each tide of passion, love, and feel¬ 
ing, each hope that ruffles life’s dull ocean, were 
there revealed. O, what revealings those fifteen 
chandeliers could make, that deck that gorgeous 
