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It was off her mind now, she thought, as she shuffled down to dinner, lookup so pale and uneasy that her aunt made her have a glass of wine and some gravy soup to begin with, and, when dinner was over, turned all the parcels off the school-room sofa, and made her lie upon it during the grand unpacking, which was almost as charming as the purchasing, perhaps more so, since there was no comparison with costlier articles.
'Thinkest thou so? the bottle is set with gems of some value. Thou wouldst not have the bracelet yestermorn wilt thou take the bottle? 'It ought to be such perfumes as these that should remind one who cannot see of the generous Julia. If the bottle be not too costly... 'Oh! I have a thousand costlier ones: take it, child! Nydia bowed her gratitude, and placed the bottle in her vest.
It was to be one of the grandest and finest houses that thought could conceive; much finer, in true reality, than that vast palace of sandstone with the porte cochere and the sweeping conservatories that you afterwards built in the costlier part of the city.
Indeed that reserved for Madame was much the costlier of the two.
The piano was the great equalizer of the block. And, though in the loftier houses the pianos might have been larger and costlier, and unquestionably noisier, it did not follow that they were better played or pleasanter to hear than the humbler instruments which served to swell the tumultuous chorus in hours of morning practice.
When Christmas came there was a simple, inexpensive trinket for each of the girls, and slightly costlier ones for the bride and Mrs. Gray; little pocket calendars, all just alike, for the men; that was all. Mr.
In all that crowded cemetery and it is crowded there was not a single grave without its lights. The most ordinary had rows of candles marking the simple form of the gravestone; but there were costlier tombs, with an array of lamps in banks of flowers beautifully arranged; and in the mausoleum of Batthyanyi the illuminations were effected by gas in the form of architectural lines of light.
"When that is done and you have the deed to it and the papers all fixed up, you come back and we'll fix up our little matter." And that is how it was done. So into our present home we moved. We had a bigger and a better and a costlier dwelling place. We were climbing upward. But we were also beginning once more with just a house. Just a house but founded on a mighty purpose!
There had been something in the mellow voice which made such a question only natural, yet it was scarcely asked before I would have given a good deal to recall it. "There is nowhere else to stay," said Mrs. Lascelles, "unless one sets up house alone, which is costlier and far less comfortable. You see, one does make a friend or two sometimes before one is found out." "But surely your people "
"They are handsome for the price. Sawdust bodies, to be sure; but what fine heads? red cheeks, splendid eyes, and hair that will comb out as well as that of some costlier ones, I'll be bound." "Ninety-seven cents!" repeated Katy, with a sigh. It was an unattainable sum, as far as she was concerned. The salesgirl remarked the sigh. "Say, Cash, why don't you buy it?" she urged.
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