She "adored the smell;" in fact, she accepted the present of a fancy box of cigarettes from Danforth with graciousness, and would sometimes smoke one purely for good company.

She also encouraged her followers to unveil the tender secrets of their souls confidentially to her, and offered gracious mediations on their behalf with any of the flitting Newport fair ones.

When they, as in duty bound, said that they saw nobody whom they cared about now she was married, that she was the only woman on earth for them,--she rapped their knuckles briskly with her fan, and bid them mind their manners.

All this mode of proceeding gave her an immense success.
[Illustration: "And would sometimes smoke one purely for good company."] But, as we said before, all this was talked about; and ladies in their letters, chronicling the events of the passing hour, sent the tidings up and down the country; and so Miss Letitia Ferguson got a letter from Mrs.Wilcox with full pictures and comments; and she brought the same to Grace Seymour.
"I dare say," said Letitia, "these things have been exaggerated; they always are: still it does seem desirable that your brother should go there, and be with her." "He can't go and be with her," said Grace, "without neglecting his business, already too much neglected.

Then the house is all in confusion under the hands of painters; and there is that young artist up there,--very elegant gentleman,--giving orders to right and left, every one of which involves further confusion and deeper expense; for my part, I see no end to it.