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 who, she said, knew most of the people in the room, and was very well qualified for giving an account of them. "Observe," said the domino, "that mask so gorgeous in apparel, and resplendent with jewels." "The very large woman with the red hair, you mean?" "The same; that is a great nabobess, just returned from the banks of the Ganges; her husband, a journeyman druggist in Spitalfields, fell in love with her as she used to carry beer from her father's, at the sign of the Pewter Pot, and they married; an uncle of Mr. Pestle having become a great merchant at Calcutta, sent for his nephew, who accepted the invitation; went out; was taken into the business; in a short time the uncle died, Pestle got his fortune, became a great man, sent for his wife, who obeyed the summons, and became as great a woman;