A Social Meteor — page 35: what you’re looking at

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A SOCIAL METEOR. £ 25 CHAPTER II. READING CHARACTERS. The following day Mrs. Thorne gave a large dinner party to her most intimate friends in honor of her guest. “Tm going to seat you next to a man to- night whom half the girls in town are after,” she said, as she gave the finishing touches to Georgie’s toilet just before they went down stairs, . ‘and my opinion is, that he will be very hard to please if he does not fall in love with you at first sight,” and she looked admiringly at the slight, graceful figure beside her. Georgie was dressed in a light blue gown, of some delicate, fleecy material, embroidered with silver, which swept far behind her on the carpet. Her neck and arms were bare,and her dark hair was gathered in a Grecian knot at the back of her shapely head. ‘There was an unusual color in her cheeks, and a bright sparkle in her eyes, due no doubt to the exertion of dressing. She had seen her twenty-second birthday, but she looked fully five years younger, as she stood beside her hostess laughing and chatting. Her Gomichbooks (EO)