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The great day dawned at last; the day of the Hunt Ball, which took place annually in the Town Hall of Ridgefield, and was attended by everybody who was anyone -- and many nobodies.
Letty's white _crêpe_, completed with her assistance, was charming; soft, girlish, and yet distinguished -- for her mental eye had copied it from one of the trousseau gowns of a young and royal princess.