The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-01-24

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stacies, and asked, with cold indifference:
''IIow much do you expect to receive
for them, Anna Wharton ?"
''Papa gave eighty dollars for them in
Italy, and they are as good as ever"
Nina shrugged her shoulders.
"Of course you can't expect to get
twentieth part of that price for them no,c' p
"Nina Pelham" said Anna Wharton,
firmly, II am at your mercy in this uat-
ter Whatever you may please to give
must accept for l am Strengthened by
necessity. Name price at once-but
Nina, remember that you are rich and
am poor"
~ shall give you FIVE dollars, and not
auother cent" said Nina, COMPRISING
her lips.
olive dollars"
And Anna Wharton thought, with a
sinking heart, of the numer Gus little dain-
ties she had fondly hoped to buy for her
sick brother from the proceeds of those
delicate ornaments.
"Just as you please" observed Nina,
coldly, 81 only purchase them out of char
iiy to you
Anna silently placed the ornaments on
the table beside Miss Pelham, and held
out a thin hand, that rould tremble a
little, in spite of her effort at self-control
for the money. Nina drew out her small
silver purt-monaie, and extracted there
from crumpled bank bill, which she
cody handed to Miss Wharton. And
they parted-Anna, in her scanty, much
worn garments; and aching heart, 10
face the cutting wind, and Nina to lounge
in cashmere and satin, before the genial
fire.
"What exquisite corals. could not
buy them for hundred dollars! !" was
Nna's exclamation the moment she was
left alone. ''Really, / think / am the
luckiest little creature in the world, only
five dollars But then she was Obliged
to sell them, and that, of course, makes
all the difference in tie world
".ind now | must 90 and order that
new bonnet" soliloquized Nina, clasping
Z
and contemplating them admiringly 'fol
Doctor Carleton has invited me to drive
out with him tomorrow. How fortunate
it was he didn't happen TO call while
Anna was here. He used to be rather
an admirer of hers before the family
dropped out of society, and I've no idea
of lo,ing my beau to any pale-faced, dow
dy girl !"
The fashionable milliner's rooms wer,
filled with the creme a la creme of the shop
ping community that afternoon. as Mis-
Pelham swept in, her camel's hair shaw
bringing faint odor of camphor wood il
the rustic of its rich folds, and her heav,
brocaded dress trailing full half yard OF
the floor. She tluttered from table tt
stand, glancing at the various attractions
and dispensing a gracious word here ant
there. until at length she came to a stand
still fascinated by an elegant chopeau
which had been produced from its band
box for her special delectation.
"Oh, what beauty! Do tell me th
price, Madame" she CALCULATED will
sparkling eyes.
ga trife-a mere trhe," said the mil
liner, patiing the strings with soft hands
around the taper fingers of which fashion
able ladies were daily " wound" by tn
score. Thirty-fve dollars is ALL"
"Thirty-ive dollars hardly dar
to pay so much for a bonnet, Madame,
said Nina. "Papa scolds about my ex
travagance already, and makes such dread
full faces over the bills that are sent t
him."
'But such a lovely bonnet Mademois
ellie Pelham such sweet gem Of taste |!
The willy Madame D'Heriot held u
the article under discussion, and turne
it one way and another. so that the sun
shine fell full on the delicate white velvet
; shadowed with creamy-point lace an
foam-like plumes. 1t was enough t
= tempt any woman living, and Nina fe
her economical resolutions ebb:ng ava
in spite of herself.
, "The roses in front are Just the shad
t of pink most becoming to Mademoisell
Pelham" urged The silver-voiced mod,ste
= ''and see those mossy buds under tn
, grasses Thirty-fve dollars is noihin
!, absolutely nothing-for such hat a
that"
, 81 must have it" said Nina, decidedly
= "Send it home at once, Madame.
' papa chooses TO scold, can't help it,"
And os she entered the waiting car
riage, she muttercd to herself:
4 II really can afford to buy an expeu
1 sive bonnet just now, for economized s
l much about those bracelets"
Tie brief colloquy between the bell
, and the milner had two auditors of who's
: presence Nina Pelham was totally uncon
E scious DR.. Carleton and his sister wer
waiting in an adjoining ante-room fo
trif,ng alteration to be made in Mis-
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