SAUNDERS, OTLEY, AND CO.,

66, BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE.

1863.

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250. l. 101.

LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET

AND CHARING CROSS.

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SUCH THINGS ARE.

'But own

CHAPTER I.

must, in this perverted age,
Who most deserve can't always most engage,
So far is worth from making glory sure,
It often hinders what it should procure.

Whom praise we most? The virtuous, brave, and wise?
No: wretches whom in secret we despise,

And who so blind as not to see the cause ?'-YOUNG.

'DID you ever see a more correct get-up? And don't you think I've done it handsomely?'

Florence was in her cousin's neat, but rather austerely furnished dressing room, when she asked these leading questions.

'Haven't I got a bonnet worthy of that delicious poke; but if you knew the trouble and the pains it cost me to concoct it!

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