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Returns to the Genteel World

           Don’tthebarristers’wivestalkaboutCircuit?Don’tthesoldiers’ladiesgossipabouttheRegiment?Don’ttheclergymen’sladiesdiscourseaboutSunday-schoolsandwhotakeswhoseduty?Don’ttheverygreatestladiesofalltalkaboutthatsmallcliqueofpersonstowhomtheybelong?AndwhyshouldourIndianfriendsnothavetheirownconversation?onlyIadmititisslowforthelaymenwhosefateitsometimesistositbyandlisten.

           BeforelongEmmyhadavisiting-book,andwasdrivingaboutregularlyinacarriage,callinguponLadyBludyer(wifeofMajor-GeneralSirRogerBludyer,K.C.B.,BengalArmy);LadyHuff,wifeofSirG.Huff,Bombayditto;Mrs.Pice,theLadyofPicetheDirector,&c.Wearenotlonginusingourselvestochangesinlife.ThatcarriagecameroundtoGillespieStreeteveryday;thatbuttonyboysprangupanddownfromtheboxwithEmmy’sandJos’svisiting-cards;atstatedhoursEmmyandthecarriagewentforJostotheClubandtookhimanairing;or,puttingoldSedleyintothevehicle,shedrovetheoldmanroundtheRegent’sPark.Thelady’smaidandthechariot,thevisiting-bookandthebuttonypage,becamesoonasfamiliartoAmeliaasthehumbleroutineofBrompton.Sheaccommodatedherselftooneastotheother.IfFatehadordainedthatsheshouldbeaDuchess,shewouldevenhavedonethatdutytoo.Shewasvoted,inJos’sfemalesociety,ratherapleasingyoungpersonnotmuchinher,butpleasing,andthatsortofthing.

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