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from a severe cold, and begs to be excused, and Mrs. Blank is leaving in five minutes for Washington and begs to be excused, are all proper forms, and in each instance the reason given is ample for asking to be excused. But it is far better, if it is inconvenient or impossible to receive a chance caller, to direct the servant to answer at the door any requests to see her mistress with the statement that she is not at home. This course is followed when the person called upon does not wish to state her reasons for refusing to receive callers, and it by no means need be regarded as an evasion of the truth. The phrase not at home implies that the lady called upon
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is not at home to callers, whether her actual absence from the house, or some more important occupation than that of receiving, prevents her appearance.
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HOUGH the average man professes to be too busy to appear in his wife's drawing room on her day at home, there is no reason why he should not do so. If a son, brother, or husband chooses,
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