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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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You
must
bring
forth
your
whole
array
of
smiles,
when
you
perform
the
part
of
hostess
in
a
ball
room.
As
your
guests
will
come
dropping
in
at
all
hours,
you
must
hover
near
the
door
to
greet
each
one
entering.
There
will
be
many
strangers
amongst
the
gentlemen.
Miss
G.
will
bring
her
fiancee.
Miss
L.,
her
brother,
just
returned,
after
ten
years'
absence,
from
India.
Miss
R.
introduces
her
cousin,
in
the
city
for
a
week.
Miss
M.,
as
a
belle,
will,
perhaps,
take
the
liberty
of
telling
some
ten
or
twelve
of
her
most
devoted
admirers
where
she
may
be
seen
on
the
evening
of
your
ball,
and,
though
strangers,
they
will,
one
after
another,
bow
over
your
hand.
To
each
and
every
one
you
must
extend
the
amiable
greeting
due
to
an
invited
guest.
If
you
are
the
only
lady
of
the
house,
your
duties
will,
indeed,
be
laborious.
You
must
be
everywhere
at
the
same
moment.
Not
a
guest
must
pass
unwelcomed.
You
must
introduce
partners
to
all
the
wall-flowers.
You
must
see
that
every
set
is
made
up
before
the
music
commences.
Each
guest
must
be
introduced
to
a
proper
partner
for
every
dance,
and
not
one
frown,
one
pettish
word,
one
look
of
fatigue,
one
sigh
of
utter
weariness
must
disturb
your
smiling
serenity.
You
must
be
ready
to
chat
cheerfully
with
every
bore
who
detains
you,
when
crossing
the
room,
to
make
up
a
set
of
quadrilles
in
a
minute's
time;
listen
patiently
to
the
sighing
lover,
whose
fair
one
is
engaged
fifty
times
during
twenty
dances;
secure
a
good
dancer
for
each
longing
belle;
do
the
same
for
the
beaux;
yet
you
must
never
be
hurried,
worried,
or
fatigued.
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