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A woman may contest her mantua-maker's bill with impunity, her antenuptial promises may go to protest and she remain unestopped; but let her leave a dinner-call overdue and unpaid, then is she shameless indeed.

From The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel by Saltus, Edgar