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At the present time there are few people at a public ball besides the dancers and their chaperones, or relations in some degree interested in them. But in the days when Molly and Cynthia were young-before railroads were, and before their consequences, the excursion-trains, which take every one up to London now-a-days, there to see their fill of gay