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a4 A SOCIAL METEOR. | can be called by such a name. She has actually made a sensation here in this critical old town.” “That is gratifying, 1 am sure. But tell me, is there any one particularly smitten, as far as you know? Any one worth while, I mean.” “Oh, yes, several. Jasper Hughes is horribly gone, and poor little Valie Beech glares at any man who dares to ask her to dance. I saw him standing in the door-way at Mrs. Foster’s last week, twisting his mustache and looking daggers at young Bellman, when she favored him in the cotillon. Afterward he went out, and you never heard such uncomplimentary names as he called poor Beilman. It was really very amusing.” “Good!” laughed Ray. “I thought she would take.” “Well, she has—taken by storm.” “What a melancholy tone, my boy! Come now, . tell me. What do you think of her?” “That she’s charming, of course.” “Only that! Aren’t you uz peu epris?” pur- sued Mrs. Thorne gayly, “as well as the others ?” “Do you suppose I’m such a fool!” said Lee, seriously, ‘“‘as to sow-where there is not the least chance of my ever reaping? QOh,no. I’ve lived a few too many years for that, I haye learned to Gomicbooks (E(o)