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Never Again by W S Mayo Hard Cover 1873 714 Pages Cover damage
Never Again by W S Mayo Hard Cover 1873 714 Pages LOOK at the photos. Price reflects condition. Cover has damage!
IT must seem strange, my dear Miss Bilkers, not only to you, but to members of your set, that I should venture to connect the name of such a fashionable girl as yourself with anything so out of fashion as a dedication, and especially a dedication of what does not pretend to be a pure work of art ; not even a novel with a moral, or a novel with a purpose ; but simply a tale with a tail, and this tail without sting or venom, and in no ways distinguishable except by a few harmless rattles that can hurt nothing and nobody. It must seem, I say, strange-perhaps presumptuous-to you and your excellent mother, to whom you owe so much of your early training ; but I have a good reason, in my excessive admiration not only of your mind and person, but of your style in general. I have watched you on many occasions with interest, and you must permit me to say, with an ever-growing conviction that there are very few girls in society quite equal to you.
It is admitted that the days of the old-fashioned, cold, hard, and haughty, but quiet, fine-ladyism have passed ; and in its place, we have the active, the aggressive, the impetuously pert and energetically arrogant style. Of this style, you are, I believe, my dear Miss Bilkers, one of the most happy examples. The demonstrative insouciance, if I may be allowed the expression, with which you twist your lithe figure through the mazes of the cotillion-the insolent vigor with which you repel the contact of common people, at ball or party-the active contemptuousness with which you stare down nobodies as they stroll the piazza of the watering place hotel-or still more, that ineffable expression of combative arrogance-that " slap-your-face-for-two-cents" kind of a look-that beams from every feature as you roll along in your carriage through Bellevue Avenue, or the drives in the Park-all, all have often excited my admiration, and now fully warrant this public tribute of regard and esteem from your humble friend.
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