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240 has a proper court and reception manner; but there are times when you may well permit yourself the airs and graces of the peacock. Indeed, I think a very pretty system of ornithology might be got up for the use of our sex; you, for example, have taken your lessons of the dove!" "Thank you!" returned her companion. "You would say to your lover, "I do not believe I should say any thing," replied Ethel "I am naturally silent." "Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, "there is a great deal to be urged in favour of a woman's silence; still,