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a palace of marble and silver with diamond decorations. That's what the Asylum is to-day. I certainly would like to have seen t

agan ball had been talked about, and Yorkburg knew things about it that had

nd what Mrs. Reagan and her daughters were going to wear. That their dresses had been made in Europe, and that Mrs. Hamner hadn

hat fleeting show I would have done it. But not being able to work that miracle,

alike about Mrs. Reagan. I know, for I heard

feet on the fender and lay back in her big rose-covered chair. "I don't like her, or her family, th

nowledge of life requires a knowledge of humanity In all its subdivisions. Mrs. Reaga

mother's side and talks of people not being in her set, Christian charity does not requ

doesn't know is what she can't find out. She met me this morning, and asked me if I'd heard how many people had go

it's the fashion now for husbands and wives not to see each other until breakfast, and not then if the

e have come and gone in this town, and rooms have never been mentioned. But this is a degenerate age.

ht a pair of cream-colored kid gloves from Miss Patty, and she'

father was minister to something in Europe; and when she sailed around the rooms with the big, high comb i

hole in Mrs. Rodman's head, you couldn't m

he best blood in Virginia was in her veins. Al

f course, she knew there were other states where things were done t

like to put in words what

war; and all her money; and her house had to be sold; and her baby died before its f

about Yankees. Each of her brothers m

the ball, too. She gave

low neck and short sleeves, with little trimming and no jewelry. And she looked so tall and beautiful, and so s

where she wore it when away from the Asylum; and I

she had been standing, looking in, and

fore-something so quiet and proud that I coul

times before, when she forgot she wasn't by herself. It was prouder

r it isn't the look that means something is dead. It means s