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[Piersaul G. <ref...@nv...>]

Er he had ever received in his life, and he begged to enclose the two
pounds ten overcharge. Jimmie fairly howled for joy as he read this
letter aloud; Bee looked very much
mortified; Mrs. Jimmie exceedingly perplexed, as
if uncertain what to think, but I confess that all my irritation
against British shopkeepers fell
away from me as a cast-off garment. I blush to say that I shared
Jimmie's delight, and when he solemnly made me a present of the two
pounds ten I had so heroically earned, I soothed my ladylike sister's
refined resentment by inviting all three to have broiled lobster with
me at Scott's. I
imagine, however, that one woman's experience with dressmakers is like
all others. I have noticed that to introduce the subject of my personal
woes in the matter is to make
the conversation general, in fact I might say composite, no matter how
formal the gathering
of women. Like the subject of servants, it is as provocative of
conversation as classical music. Far be it from me, however, to class
all shopping in London under the head of dry goods, or the rage one
gets into with every dressmaker. In most
of the shops, in fact, I may say, in all of them (for the one
unfortunate
experience I have related in the jeweller's shop was the only one of
the kind I ever had in London), the clerks are universally polite,
in