"
"I endorse that sentiment," said Arthur, coming in from an adjoining room;
"it would be a great restraint upon men's vicious inclinations, if they
knew that indulgence in vice would shut them out of ladies' society."
"A truce to the subject. I'm tired of it," said Virginia. "Is it decided,
mamma, that we take passage in the steamer with the Travillas?"
"Yes; and now let us turn our attention to the much more agreeable topic
of dress; there are a good many questions to settle in regard to it;--what
we must have, what can be got here, and what after we reach Philadelphia."
"And how one dollar can be made to do the work of two," added Virginia;
"for there are loads and loads of things I must have in order to make a
respectable appearance at the watering-places."
"And we have just two weeks in which to make our arrangements," added her
mother.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND.
"Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
Remember to have heard."
--SHAKESPEARE.
Early in the morning of a perfect June day, our numerous party arrived at
the wharf where lay the steamer that was to carry them to Philadelphia.
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