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 the one does things and does not talk of them, while the other talks of them but does not do them."

"My dear Miss Stott!" remonstrated Mrs. Dumaresq.

"Yes," said Miss Stott, "why only to-day I read the account of an action taken by a servant against her mistress, a wealthy woman, who broke her fan on her maid's shoulder."

"How shocking!" said Mrs. Dumaresq. "But you must not judge the aristocracy by such persons. The woman, though she may have been rich, could not possibly have been a lady."

"So I think," replied Miss Stott; "no doubt, however, she considered herself one, for she was an Earl's daughter."

"Oh—h!" said Mrs. Dumaresq, with great surprise. "Then the maid must have been very provoking."

A rattle of teacups announced the arrival of coffee.

Miss Prudence Semaphore, who was seated in the centre of the room near the lamp, looked round to see if any of the men had come up, and dropped her Pictorial. As she recovered it, an advertisement caught her eye.