‘You said she was
beautiful. "
"Why, surely you don't think your guests would steal them," observed Rachel,
archly. Something about this woman rather reminds me of our
hostess. ’
Her eyes narrowed. “I am off to-night,” he said. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot
expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc.
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