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(IRMA TO HER FRIEND EMMA.)
"You ask me how I like the great world. The great world, dear Emma, is but a little world, after all. But I can readily understand why they term it 'great. ' It has a firmament of its own. Two suns rise daily; I mean their majesties, of course. A gracious glance, or a kind word, from either -- and the day is clear and bright. Should they ignore you, the weather is dull and dreary.