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The illustrious Society of Blithedale, though it toiled in downright

earnest for the good of mankind, yet not unfrequently illu of pastiue; and, within doors, fragle acts of tragedy or

comedy, or draiving us readings froic power, or breadth of co to the world that she did not at once go upon the

stage

Tableaux vivants were another of our occasional modes of

amusement, in which scarlet shawls, old silken robes, ruffs, velvets,

furs, and all kinds of miscellaneous trumpery converted our familiar

companions into the people of a pictorial world We had been thus

engaged on the evening after the incident narrated in the last chapter

Several splendid works of art--either arranged after engravings froinal illustrations of scenes in history or

ro Zenobia

for e piece of gauze, or

so what picture should next

occupy the fraaric skill could so easily convert

into gorgeous draperies for heroes and princesses