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After this, the sheets are to be "sized," i. e., dipped in a bath of size and water, and laid out to dry. This process gives firmness and consistency to the paper, which would otherwise remain too soft to handle. The sheets should be pressed a few hours between glazed paste-boards, as used in printing offices.
If we have allowed the despatch of Christmas cards to degenerate into naught but a tedious shuffling of paste-boards and overwork of post-office officials, the fault is not in the custom but in ourselves.
I was not absolutely fortunate," he answered, with another disagreeable smile; "but you know the old proverb 'Lucky in love, unlucky at cards, so I never expect much from the mischievous paste-boards." Her face flushed painfully to the very waves of her hair, then grew whiter than before; she sank to a seat from positive inability to stand.
She approached the Porcelain in a chastened mood that Sabbath morning. She was thinking of the Night Before and of playing cards for Money. She remembered the glare of Light for overhead and the tense, eager Faces peering above the Paste-Boards.
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