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Kitty Keeps Her Birthday.
They were all assembled as usual at the breakfast-table.
Preferring the request suggested to her by Mrs.Presty, Kitty had hastened the presentation of the birthday gifts, by getting into her mother's bed in the morning, and exacting her mother's promise before she would consent to get out again.

By her own express wish, she was left in ignorance of what the presents would prove to be.

"Hide them from me," said this young epicure in pleasurable sensations, "and make me want to see them until I can bear it no longer." The gifts had accordingly been collected in an embrasure of one of the windows; and the time had now arrived when Kitty could bear it no longer.
In the procession of the presents, Mrs.Linley led the way.
She had passed behind the screen which had thus far protected the hidden treasures from discovery, and appeared again with a vision of beauty in the shape of a doll.

The dress of this wonderful creature exhibited the latest audacities of French fashion.