OR THE NEWEST PHASE OF FOLLY.
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Let us hope, however, we shall grow wiser, and that in a few years no
housewife will believe in a draper's failure—that alarming sacrifices
will sink down to the level of the Waterloo bullets; and a mercer's
ruin, like the stucco ones at the Colosseum, be called a very good
imitation that will not bear looking into too closely.