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Saith a very homely proverb (pardon its vulgarity), "You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. " But a sow's ear is a much finer work of art than a silk purse; and grand, indeed, the mechanician who could make a sow's ear out of a silk purse, or conjure into creatures of flesh and blood the sarcenet and /tulle/ of a London drawing-room.
"Mamma," asked Honoria Carr Vipont, "what sort of a person was Mrs. Darrell?"