The things we do!

This picture was the delight of the laughing happy
girls; except, perhaps, the little cousins from Bryanstone Square, who
were invited to Ethel's party, but were so overpowered by the prodigious
new dresses in which their mamma had attired them, that they could admire
nothing but their rustling pink frocks, their enormous sashes, their
lovely new silk stockings.
Lady Kew coming to London attended on the party, and presented her
granddaughter with a sixpenny pincushion. The Colonel had sent Ethel a
beautiful little gold watch and chain. Her aunt had complimented her with
that refreshing work, Alison's History of Europe, richly bound.--Lady
Kew's pincushion made rather a poor figure among the gifts, whence
probably arose her ladyship's ill-humour.
Ethel's grandmother became exceedingly testy when, the Colonel arriving,
Ethel ran up to him and thanked him for the beautiful watch, in return
for which she gave him a kiss, which, I dare say, amply repaid Colonel
Newcome; and shortly after him Mr.


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