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Show i Costly Valentines When quaint old Pepys wrote hie diary St. Valentine was still "fashion- : able," and many genuine love affairs I grew out of the Jesting beginning, while the "favors' frequently were a splendid extravagance that would be frowned upon by the tastes and man- j oers of our day. The duke of York, ; we are told by the dear old gossip, gav ring worth $4,000 to bis for- j tunate valentine. The same woman i fell the following year to the lot of Lord MandevIIIe, whose token was a diamond valued at $1,500. |