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A SOCIAL METEOR. 9 help to remedy these defects. I think I'll go to Ray’s. Anything will be better for me than sit- ting here, thinking, thinking all the time. And Aunt Margueret can spare me just now, she’s so busy with her orphans, that she won’t miss me very much. Yes, I'll go, fora little while, any- way.” And she went to her desk and scribbled off a few words on a telegraph blank, just as the bell for luncheon sounded. | Two days later she drove up to a fine house in Walnut street, Philadelphia, and was received with open arms by Mrs. Thorne as she entered the hall. : “I’m so delighted to see you, dear,” she ex- claimed, between her kisses, “you cannot imagine. But run up and take off your hat and jacket, and then come to my room, where we will make some tea a la Russe, which, I assure you, I can make to the queen’s taste. I learned the art, on the other side, from a Russian nobleman. It will refresh you, for you look pale and tired.” When Georgie found herself seated in front of a crackling wood fire, in the daintiest of dressing- rooms, with the tea-kettle singing merrily on the hearth, and the light of the declining day coming CEORNNIE DOOKS (C©@)