As to all questions of this kind, however, as between the two, the
reader must judge, and one document in evidence is Harley's chapter,
which ran in this wise:
A MEETING
"Stop beating, heart, and in a moment calm
The question answer--is this, then, my fate?"
- PERKINS'S "Odes."
As the correspondents of the New York papers had surmised,
invitations for the Howlett ball were issued on the 12th. It is not
surprising that the correspondents in this instance should be guilty
of that rare crime among society reporters, accuracy, for their
information was derived from a perfectly reliable source, Mrs.
Howlett's butler, in whose hands the addressing of the envelopes had
been placed--a man of imposing presence, and of great value to the
professional snappers-up of unconsidered trifles of social gossip in
the pay of the Sunday newspapers, with many of whom he was on terms
of closest intimacy. Of course Mrs. Howlett was not aware that her
household contained a personage of great journalistic importance, any
more than her neighbor, Mrs.
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