How Aunt Kipp did laugh at this early budding of romance in her pet ! And all the rest joined her , for Toady 's sentimental air was irresistible . `` You precocious chick ! I dare say you will have them all before we know where we are . Never mind , deary ; you shall have my little watch , and the silver-headed cane with a boar 's head on it , '' answered the old lady , in high good-humor . `` You need n't blush , dear ; I do n't bear malice ; so let 's forget and forgive . I shall settle things to-morrow , and have a free mind . You are welcome to my money , and I hope I shall live to see you all enjoy it . '' So she did ; for she lived to see Sophy plump , cheery , and care-free ; Polly surrounded by a flock of Lambkins ; Van in possession of a generous slice of the Van Bahr fortune ; Toady revelling in the objects of his desire ; and , best of all , she lived to find that it is never too late to make oneself useful , happy , and beloved . PSYCHE 'S ART `` Handsome is that handsome does . '' I Once upon a time there raged in a certain city one of those fashionable epidemics which occasionally attack our youthful population . It was n't the music mania , nor gymnastic convulsions , nor that wide-spread malady , croquet . Neither was it one of the new dances which , like a tarantula-bite , set every one a twirling , nor stage madness , nor yet that American lecturing influenza which yearly sweeps over the land . No , it was a new disease called the Art fever , and it attacked the young women of the community with great violence . Nothing but time could cure it , and it ran its course to the dismay , amusement , or edification of the beholders , for its victims did all manner of queer things in their delirium . They begged potteries for clay , drove Italian plaster-corkers out of their wits with unexecutable orders got neuralgia and rheumatism sketching perched on fences and trees like artistic hens , and caused a rise in the price of bread , paper , and charcoal , by their ardor in crayoning . They covered canvas with the expedition of scene-painters , had classes , lectures , receptions , and exhibitions , made models of each other , and rendered their walls hideous with bad likenesses of all their friends . Their conversation ceased to be intelligible to the uninitiated , and they prattled prettily of `` chiaro oscuro , French sauce , refraction of the angle of the eye , seventh spinus process , depth and juiciness of color , tender touch , and a good tone . '' Even in dress the artistic disorder was visible ; some cast aside crinoline altogether , and stalked about with a severe simplicity of outline worthy of Flaxman . Others flushed themselves with scarlet , that no landscape which they adorned should be without some touch of Turner 's favorite tint .
Some were blue in every sense of the word , and the heads of all were XXXXX with classic braids , curls tied Hebe-wise , or hair dressed a la hurricane .
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