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I only took one look, and my heart was gone. I distinctly felt the void it left, when it sprang from under my vest into Miss Stanley's possession. I don't know what she wore, but her fair face and slender throat rose above clouds of soft white lace. There were pearls here and there; and, altogether, if I had fallen at her feet, I should have only acted out my sensations. It broke in upon this rapturous dream to hear my first flame, Miss Stanley, say. "The Redowa. I am engaged to Capt. Hawley, and here he comes." Did I ask her to dance? I am sure I don't know. I recollect only that, five minutes later, we were gliding lazily through a slow, dreamy Redowa, and I held a tiny white gloved hand in mine, and found my idol was not the spiritual form she looked, by clasping my arm round a substantial waist — a slender, graceful waste — still made of flesh and blood, like wise silk, whalebone and lace. I wished to have gone home next day; but I could not do it. Leave Sarat