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, and gave me no end of trouble, because all the young fellows on board would propose to them—they were not to be named in a day with our girls."

"Law, my dear, you see them dressed out just for once in a way, and I don't think, John, you'll quite like the bill when you see it."

"Oh, hang the bills, I don't grudge them a little finery. Could not they always be dressed so, Jane? I should like to give them a walk in those gowns, one on each arm, just to see people stare."

"Stare! I should think they well might, if they saw our girls go flaunting about Dulham in those fly-away gowns. No, it's all very well for once in a way, as they had a fancy to hear this music; and as the Duchess was so kind as to ask them, I thought it respectful to dress them out; but we must go back to the old brown gowns, John. And to-morrow you must go and see that nice Captain Templeton, Lord Chester that was—No, is, I mean—and they are so