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The cards for dinner having been issued, it became the duty of Mrs. / Timmins to make further arrangements respecting the invitations to the / tea-party which was to follow the more substantial meal.
These arrangements are difficult, as any lady knows who is in the habit / of entertaining her friends. There are --