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TERRIBLE DEVELOPMENT.

In my Clarendon investigations I was ably assisted by the
ladies. They told me everything about everybody in the hotel—
how long Mr. Green had been divorced, about Mrs. Smith's dyed
hair, and how Mrs. Brown enamelled.
They said one old husband did scold his
wife horribly, but that the wife got even
by flirting with a young Englishman when
the governor went to New York. They
told me how Mrs. Thompson wore a dress
on which was $3,000 worth of real lace;
and how somebody had been seen coming
out of somebody else's room at twelve
o'clock at night.

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[ILLUSTRATION] [Description: 628EAF. Page 151. In-line Illustration. Image of a fashionable lady with a veil on her hat. The caption reads, "WE READ 'EVERY SATURDAY.'"]

This is the way the old aristocratic
ladies went on.