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122 almost any species of folly. When she had finished, however, I no longer thought it strange that her mistress should be treated so cooly by her former associates.

During this, my first and last visit to Newport, very many strange and peculiar things came under my notice. Among them was the following incident, which, although it occurred in the hight of the season, was known to but very few of the visitors.

A young lady stopped at one of the fashionable hotels, with her mother, father, and another lady about her own age, a cousin. One evening, the latter complaining of being unwell, retired early, and left this young lady in the parlor with her father and mother. They sat up quite late, and when the young lady started to go to bed, instead of going to her own room, through a mistake she went into that of a stranger a flight lower. Without striking a light, she undressed herself, and sat down on the edge of the bed, and commenced telling her cousin something that had occurred down stairs after she left. Wondering why her cousin was so silent, and thinking she was asleep, she put her hand on her face to arouse her, when, to her horror and dismay, instead of the soft face of her cousin, she felt the bearded lip and hard face of a man. On her attempting to leave, he had the impudence to kiss her; she screamed, and rushing from the room, sought her father and mother, to whom she told the circumstance. They concluded their best plan would be to leave; and so, early the next morning, they started for Niagara Falls. Going by the way of Boston, they made a short stay in that