A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 99: what you’re looking at

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PENALTIES. 97? later and there came to the hotel a family who also were a type of a class. The father was an ordinary business. man, and, freed from the influence of his ambitious and designing wife, would have been passably agreeable. He possessed little means, wag in a small business, and compelled to devote all his time toit. The mother, not possessing wealth, fell back upon pretense as her impelling power into the social circle. She was a mimic, passably well educated, and had learned to ape to perfection the at- titudes and poses of the great and exclusive, and she suc- ceeded in making an impression. People who carefully pose in this manner can make an impression, and it is singular how impressionable the ordinary throng is. This woman’s every movement was studied; and she had a daughter who was a miniature edition of her mother—an excellent poser, but her poses were imitations of young Jadies of high degree. She was exceedingly slender, and, consequently, could dress well. Her complexion was good, her features rather prominent, and her airs accorded with: her exquisite poses. I, who had seen so many of her type;,. could see how, within a few years, that willowy form af such delicate slenderness would become sharp and angular. I could discern how the features, which carried but one ex- pression, would in time become hardened because of the: Jack of the illumination which attends intelligence and sweetness of temperament. This family had formerly met the young married lady who had become passingly intimate with Eloise, and the acquaintanceship was renewed. The mother looked over the guests at the hotel. She had man- aged to get her daughter into a certain social circle in the. EOLMICLOOLKS (E©)