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Drusilla with a Million by Elizabeth Cooper
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are trained to look like mummies."

"Well, he certainly had good trainin'. What time do we go callin'
to-morrow? I want to git it over."

"I'll come for you at four, and I'll tell them to have the small car
ready. Good-by. I'm going to a great big tea where I am to pour. I
love to give tea, although I always give the wrong person lemon."

The next day Jeanne, being told that Drusilla was going to call upon
the ladies of the neighborhood, took extra care in dressing her; and
when Daphne came, Drusilla was a very richly, exquisitely dressed old
lady waiting for her car. The bag delighted Drusilla and she examined
the fittings, and looked at the little vanity case with its tiny
powder puff and mirror. Daphne laughed as she saw her peep into the
mirror.

"Oh, Miss Doane, you're just like us all. We can't pass a mirror
without a peep."

Drusilla said: "I wonder if we ever git too old not to want to see
ourselves. As long as I can have hats like this one, I won't. Ain't
it funny what clothes can do for you. Now with my velvet dress I
ain't a bit afraid to go in that big house, in the front door and set
down in the parlor, while if I had on my old black dress, I'd feel
that I belonged in the kitchen. Yet it's the same Drusilla Doane
inside."

Drusilla made many calls that afternoon. At some of the places,
being told that the lady was not at home, a card was left.
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