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The Gilded Age
Part 2.

CHAPTER XIV
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Any departure from either color or shape would be instantly taken note of.

It has occupied mother a long time, to find at the shops the exact shade for her new bonnet.

Oh, thee must go by all means.

But thee won't see there a sweeter woman than mother." "And thee won't go ?" "Why should I?
I've been again and again.

If I go to Meeting at all I like best to sit in the quiet old house in Germantown, where the windows are all open and I can see the trees, and hear the stir of the leaves.
It's such a crush at the Yearly Meeting at Arch Street, and then there's the row of sleek-looking young men who line the curbstone and stare at us as we come out.


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