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Rh signs. I love not this desire to loose the ties between the living and the dead; the sorrowful affection which lingers over the departed is too sacred, too purifying a feeling, to be thus hurriedly put aside. With all that is false and affected about Père la Chaise, the feeling which founded it, and which it still keeps alive, is a good one; for no solitary moment passed in thoughtfulness beside the deceased was ever yet without its price to the survivor." Mr. Morland.—"They say that every age has its ruling vice—I think impatience is that of our present—we live in such a hurry that we have not time to be sorry." Edward Lorraine.—"And we shall have no time to be charitable—we have to attend the Ladies' Bazaar; we are destined to fall victims to-day to smiles, pincushions, and compassion: to my certain knowledge, Miss Arundel, the other morning, despatched a whole regiment of dolls." Moore says, Pleasantly did the day pass to Emily—one gets so soon accustomed to the society of a