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Up in the cozy chamber, / Where, on the snowy bed / The dress, and the pearls, and the new false curls, / For the morrow's use were spread, / The bride-elect and her mother / Were sitting before the grate, / Talking over the days gone by, / And planning the future state.
"I really am quite well suited," / Said Minnie, "with my outfit -- / Jane says Kit Somers trousseau, / Is nothing compared with it. / That her laces are imitation, / And her bonnet a perfect fright, / And she says I'll wholly eclipse her / In everybody's sight.