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from his high seat, and receives her with pious congratulations the man in the spectacles looks askant, and advances with extended hand. To use a convenient phrase, she is received with open arms and so meek and good is the aspect, that she finds her thoughts transported to an higher, a region where only is bliss. Provided with a seat in a conspicuous place, she is told to consider herself the guest of the society. Sundry ovations, sister slocum gives her to understand, will be made in her honor, ere long. The fact must here be disclosed that sister slocum had prepared the minds of those present for the reception of an embodiment of perfect generosity. No sooner has lady swiggs time to breathe freely, than she changes the wondrous kind aspect of the assembly, and sends it into a