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"Miss Alison Cray presents her compliments to -- and requests the favor of their company at her marriage with Mr. Ivie McLean, on January 8th, at six o'clock."
Tommy in his Sabbath clothes, with a rose from the Dovecot hot-house for buttonhole (which he slipped into his pocket when he saw other boys approaching), delivered them at the doors of the aristocracy, where, by the way, he had been a few weeks earlier, with another circular.