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 could pick you out a New York girl from a crowd of specimen women from every town in England and America. They have a way of holding their elbows, and a certain half-arrogant, half-flirtatious, entirely fetching poise of the head, that beats all the other women in creation."

"I being a New Yorker, thank you for the compliment. Do you think Gladys Carleton a beauty?"

"Perhaps I should if you were not here; I can hardly tell. My eyes are rather dazzled. If Miss Carleton is your friend, won't you present me to her?"

The lady addressed seemed not altogether pleased at this request, but she answered,—

"Oh yes; I will stop her when she passes back this way. I cannot leave my seat, or I shall never get another."

The speakers were seated in the long crescent-shaped corridor of the Newport Casino. The hands of the quaint golden clock on the tower of the outer courtyard pointed to the