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"," said Lady Mandeville, as she and Emily met on a crowded staircase, "you would let me recommend my coiffeur to you." "A gentleman most devoted," observed her husband, "to the science. Aware that appearance is every thing in this world, he holds it little less than a sin to neglect it. Meeting him stepping like a feather, or as light as one of his own curls, I stopped to ask Signor Julio