The most awkward occasion in a young woman’s career, says Bilking, is when she returns from the wedding trip, and for the first time invites her friends to a breakfast in her own house. She feels that all eyes are upon her, and that inquiring minds are busy sifting the sweet mysteries of her new life. In the tumult of her emotion she pours the hot water into the sugar-bowl, sweetens John’s coffee with salt, scalps the butter with the sleeve of her morning gown, waters the toast from the waste bowl, burns her fingers against the coffee urn, jjots red iu the face, and finally, unless she is a female of cast-iron resolution, bursts into a Hood of tears, which all the pangs of several days’ accumulated hunger are impotent to fsgua^e,
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Evening Star, Issue 3379, 18 December 1873, Page 2
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133Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 3379, 18 December 1873, Page 2
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