Then an idea came to her, she took the horseshoe from where it had been hanging over her door, covered its dinginess with two coats of gold paint, cut the legend, "Sweet Violets," together with the embossed flowers, from the label on the perfume bottle, and pasted them on the horseshoe, which she further ornamented with an enormous ribbon bow, and despatched it secretly to L. Middleton by express a few days before Christmas.

"The Jewish gaberdine is gradually dropping off; I mean the dinginess of your early complexion.

Kincaid's Battery 'doesn't want to parade its dinginess till it's done something'pure vanity!