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A SOCIAL METEOR. CHAPTER I. A LETTER OF INQUIRY. PHILADELPHIA, November First. DEAREST GEORGIE :—It is so long since I have either seen or heard from you that I am actually pining for a sight of your pretty face. So when can you accommodate me? We returned from Europe three weeks ago, and are now settled for the winter, I trust, for I am sick and tired of trav- eling, and long to potter around my own house once more. This promises to be an unusually gay season here, and if you are as fond of “butterflying” (a word of my own) as you were before I went away, can I not prevail upon you to take pity upon a poor, unfortunate woman, whose husband posi- ~ tively refuses to accompany her on her “giddy ' rounds,” and come to us, for a month or so? Don’t write me that you are grieving over your late affatre de ceur and’ have given up society, but come; the sooner the better, and prepare to lose your heart all over again, to one of our “pet eligibles,” EONAIE KOOKS (C@)