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contretemps,  which  entirely  enchanted  Luciana;  their  life  became  ever  wilder

and  wilder.  Huge  hunting-parties  were  set  on  foot  in  the  deep  snow,  attended

with  every  sort  of  disagreeableness;  women  were  not  allowed  to  excuse

themselves  any  more  than  men,  and  so  they  trooped  on,  hunting  and  riding,

sledging and shouting, from one place to another, till at last they approached the

residence,  and  there  the  news  of  the  day  and  the  scandals  and  what  else  forms

the  amusement  of  people  at  courts  and  cities  gave  the  imagination  another

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direction, and  Luciana  with  her  train  of  attendants  (her  aunt  had  gone  on  some

time before) swept at once into a new sphere of life.