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"Are you going to Mrs. Turtle's this evening? " asked a gay young Periwinkle of his friend Cockle, as they met on the sands.
"Well, I don't know: what is to be done, and who will be there? " replied Cockle, rather languidly, for it had been a very gay season, and he was decidedly "used up."