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CHAPTER VII. DELL THOMPSON’S PARTY.
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One day, about three weeks after the commencement of my school, I was surprised by a call from Dell Thompson, who, after conversing1 awhile, very familiarly, astonished me with an invitation to visit her the next afternoon. “She was going to have a few of her friends from the village,” she said, “Dr. Clayton with the rest.”
Here she looked at me and I looked out of the window, while she continued, “You’ll come, I suppose.”
I replied that I would, after which she departed, leaving me in a perfect state of bewilderment. I invited to Captain Thompson’s, with Dell’s fashionable friends! What could it mean, and what should I wear? This last was by far the more important question; for I knew that the people of the village were noted2 for their fine dress, and I, of course, could not compete with them in point of elegance3. Dr. Clayton too, I had heard, was rather fastidious in his ideas of a lady’s dress, and my heart sank within me as I mentally enumerated4 the articles of my scanty5 wardrobe, finding therein nothing which I deemed fit for the occasion, save a white dotted muslin, which was now lying soiled and wrinkled at the bottom of my trunk. It is true, I had a blue and white lawn, neatly6 made and quite becoming, but my heart was set upon the muslin, and so when Mrs. Ross, 89with whom I was that week boarding, offered to wash and iron it, I accepted the proffered7 kindness.
The next morning, when I passed Captain Thompson’s, I observed a great commotion8 in and around the house. The blinds were thrown back, and through the parlor9 windows I caught sight of brooms and dusters, while at
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conversing
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elegance
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neatly
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parlor
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intervals
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pesters
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destitute
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starch
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determined
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dilemma
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virtue
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slipper
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propriety
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mighty
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dressing
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chamber
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countenance
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fathom
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linen
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piazza
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boisterous
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peculiar
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refreshing
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undoubtedly
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mischievously
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chiding
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ridicule
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sociable
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groaned
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shrieked
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infliction
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tunes
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musk
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deigning
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exhausted
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forestalled
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perfectly
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mishap
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dealing
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homely
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