Show Escaped I She was a plump woman and is would not have been a violent stretching of the truth to call her a corpulent one With the fatuity which sometimes seizes upon her sex in the way of deciding to wear the most conspicuous stuffs she had selected as the material of her gown a brocade such as of old was used by the upholsterer She was covered with figures so large that had she been smaller not so much as a single one could have been crowded upon her yet which she displayed fully as a conscientious con-scientious sign board could have done I There were those in the company who were not restrained by the loftiness of her social position from remarking upon her striking appearance and as she sailed across the room one of these persons said to her neighbor Do look at Mrs X isnt she astonishing tonight Yes was tho reply she looks exactly like an escaped sofaBoston Courier |