"Still," she rattled on somewhat breathlessly, "one gets many hints from others, and the creation of to-day is merely the old clothes of to-morrow.

Invention has no vacation so far as ladies' apparel is concerned.

'Take no thought of the morrow, wherewithal ye shall be clothed,' may have been a good motto for the court of Solomon, but it has little relation with that of Victoria." "Solomon--if the saying is his--was hedging.

He had many wives, you know." "Well, as I was about to say, you must now turn your attention to the other guests, and tell me who's who.

I have already confessed my ignorance, and you promised to enlighten me." The young man, with visible reluctance, directed his thoughts from the one to the many, and named this person and that, while Jennie, with the pencil attached to her card, made cabalistic notes in shorthand, economizing thus both space and time.