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A SOCIAL METEOR. 71 thinks I ought to find out the price of everything before I buy it. Hesays healwaysdoes. I gen- erally do myself, but not when I am dealing with a French milliner or dressmaker; nobody does. I’m bound to have what I want, whether it costs much or little, and what’s the use of fretting about things before the time comes to pay for them? I wish I was an actress, and then it would be all right for me to accept valuable presents from the people I entertained. I should let them give me all the thousand and one little knickknacks which go to make life endurable, and not so much as say ‘thank you.’ ” “Then you might see ever so many scowling - faces, instead of one,” remarked Georgie. “Pas du tout. Men are generally too glad to furnish the ‘peaches and cream’ to the objects of their admiration. It’s only the bread-and-butter question which galls, and that they have to re- spond to with their wives. It’s the death of ro- mance. Once they are sure of you they begin to show the cloven foot and try to mold you to suit themselves. Oh, I tell you they are brutes when you know them well.” “Youre very discouraging indeed,” observed Georgie. Gomichoo S (E@)