SOCIAL.

"_What I so like about dear Sibyl is her charming simplicity;_"

_i.e._, "The silliest little chit conceivable."

"_His conversation is always so very improving;_" _i.e._, "A pedantic

prig, who bores you with Darwinism in the dance, and 'earnestness' at

a tennis-party."

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