previous parties, and recall which gave you the most pleasure, and perhaps you will deduce some pertinent facts anent your own true self. Who has not seen athletic males transformed into the clingingest of vines by swatlfing skirts and trains or timid maidens put on audacious ways with a page's doublet and hose?
Inferences are dangerous and we should hardly like to say that all the Lady Macbeths seen on such occasions were of over weening ambition or that all the George Washingtons couldn't tell a lie in or out of the Colonial costume. Nevertheless, it is true that the masked ball gives one more chance to be what we would like to be rather than what we are.
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