_Seventeen._ "_Is_ marriage a failure? I _should_ like to know!"
_Seven-and-Twenty._ "My dear, when as long as myself you have
tarried,
You will not need much demonstration to show
That the only true failure is--not getting married!"
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FEMALE DEFINITION OF LEAP YEAR.--Miss Understood.
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[Illustration: A PLEASANT PROSPECT
_Miss Kitty Candour (who has just accepted dear Reggie, and is now
taking him fully into her confidence)._ "I must tell you, Reggie dear,
that the great fault of my character is that after I have taken any
resolution--it doesn't matter what it may be--I always bitterly repent
it!"]
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