AT THE ACADEMY SOIRÉE.

"_How well your Picture bears the artificial light!_" i.e., "Couldn't

look worse than it does by daylight."

"_Mustn't keep you on the stairs. Such heaps of your friends asking

for you upstairs_;" i.e., "Got rid of him, thank goodness!"

"_Here you are at last! Been dodging you from room to room!_" i.e.,

"To keep out of your way. Caught at last, worse luck!"

"_You look as if you had just stepped out of a picture-frame!_" i.e.,

"Wish you'd step back into one!"

"_Not seen Mr. O'Kew's picture? You_ must _see it. Only three rooms

from here, and no crowd there now. So go and bring me back word what

you think_;" i.e., "Now to flee!"

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