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| | Unmentionables: The Empress Eugenie, Her Immoral Drawers |
 | | Her power is absolute, for her rule is one of love, expressed in the prettiest forms by all, from the viscountess to the washer-woman. |
 | | Taking this to be the truth, and not satire, it is therefore perfectly clear—much clearer than the Koh-i-Noor diamond—that Eugenie, as the undisputed "EMPRESS OF FASHION," must live in the hearts of all those whose greatest happiness it is on this earth to pay loving obedience, even to a matter of slavery, to her. |
 | | With her reputation as dictator of the current mode, it may very well be that Eugenie revived the fashion of the farthingale. |
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