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a week, but that oftener they would become C^yy^l (which translated would signify bores :) " and what, in the name of God, was to become of people all the rest of the week ? — Were they to be shut up in their own houses by themselves ? — This was a scheme quite impracticable, the af- fairs of many persons requiring insurances upon their lives, which could be done at no premium if such risques were to be run as being at home alone. — I was thrown out at first by this remark, but I found afterwards that suicide was not often excepted in their policies on lives as by all of ours in England. — The whole objection, however, was soon replied to and put down by a very fine young woman, who said, " that though it might be difficult to answer the ob- jection, she knew, personally, it had been car- ried too far, having been at home herself two nights following, only three years before, but that by taking a few nervous draughts and going to three balls every night for a fortnight afterwards, she got well in less than a month." This 7vas quite decisive, and as I now saw that ¬my ¬
