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ROMANCE AND REALITY.
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milliner sends in her annual account of enormities, like Corneille's Curiatius, 'j'ai pitié, de moi-même.' "

No debate ever ending in conviction, it is of little consequence that here the conversation was interrupted by that rise of feminine stocks which usually takes place during the second glass of claret.