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Rh ribands, both colours well suited to her fair hair and skin; a white muslin apron, trimmed with delicate lace; ruffles of the same material, showing to much advantage a white and rounded arm: a chip hat, with flowers, is placed quite at the back of the light hair, which leaves the white and broad forehead exposed. By the by, talking of her fair hair, I must tell you an anecdote of the use to which it was once applied. When she and her husband were staying at Hanover, they asked some people to dinner, and Mrs. Howard was obliged to cut off her luxuriant tresses and sell them to pay for the said dinner! What a beginning! and, alas, what an excuse for any faults in her afterlife! Think of all the wretchedness included in the single word poverty. Truly Shakspeare says,— But to proceed with my description: her features are regular, and the eyes a soft blue; and she is singularly young-looking. Mrs. Howard is the very person to look young to