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some of which were useful, others only ornamental, but as it
gave employment to the young and to the industrious, Mrs. Durnford
generously determined to encourage the art by purchasing several
of the prettiest articles, such as flower cases, card racks, hand
screens, all of which were made of paper, highly ornamented with
gold, and elegant little painted devices. Her daughters had been
taught a variety of fancy works by their governess, but their mamma
felt a pleasure in purchasing these, because she trusted that she
was doing good, as well as assisting to support some worthy object
in distress. Upon learning from the young person who sold them, that
this was really the case, she ordered her children to make choice
of what they pleased, and then hastened forward to avoid the warm
effusions of gratitude, which her liberality had called forth.
The attention of the young ladies was now divided between some
remarkable fine figs which they saw displayed at a