A Social Meteor — page 138: what you’re looking at

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128 A SOCIAL METEOR. amused herself as much as she dared, without provoking her husband’s wrath, with the young men she constantly met in the whirl of society in which she lived. Just at present she felt a delightful sense of liberty, and she made up her mind to do exactly as she chose. All were fish who came to her net, and it was one of her prin- ciples to scorn no one, not even the most humble and unpretending. “One can never tell what will happen in the future,” she said to herself, with a certain amount of wisdom. ‘Those who are up to-day may be down to-morrow, and wzce versa.” : So she chatted with Peter very pleasantly. She soon found herself quite interested in his talk, which was mostly about the doings in Philadelphia since she had left, and where he had been staying for the past six weeks. He told her of two engagements, which were about to be made public, and got her very much excited by his description of some tableaux which were being arranged on an elaborate scale for February, and in which she was booked to appear as Mary, Queen of Scots, and Lee as Rizzio. “TI was commissioned to ask you if you would accept the part,” he said. “All you will have to Eomichbooks (Eo)