. Historic towns of the Southern States. balls and 68 Annapolis routs. We hear the gossip of the playhouse—the first in America—-or of the races. Thebon mots of the Tuesday Club are told again ;the wit flashes at the dinner given in honorof the Kings birthday ; the defeat of the Pre-tender, the birth of the Dauphin, the repeal ofthe Stamp Act, the coming of would Serve as excuse for the glass in those Very merry,Dancing, , c^uaffing, and untliinking times. We hear, above the sfrave tones of the menwho are talking of the affairs of state, the clearvoices of

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. Historic towns of the Southern States. balls and 68 Annapolis routs. We hear the gossip of the playhouse—the first in America—-or of the races. Thebon mots of the Tuesday Club are told again ;the wit flashes at the dinner given in honorof the Kings birthday ; the defeat of the Pre-tender, the birth of the Dauphin, the repeal ofthe Stamp Act, the coming of would Serve as excuse for the glass in those Very merry,Dancing, , c^uaffing, and untliinking times. We hear, above the sfrave tones of the menwho are talking of the affairs of state, the clearvoices of the women—fair, slender, sweet, inpearls and brocade, singing to the accompani-ment of spinet or harpsichord music, as unlikeours as were their faces or their thoughts, andwe all but forget that the Past is dead and cancome no more, and that these are but echoesand shadows and the ashes of roses. Behind a long brick wall, gated and sentried,lies the United States Naval Academy, andanother world, But that, as Hans Andersen says, is.

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