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Updated: May 1, 2025
Miss Day gave a listless sort of yawn. "Let's talk of something else," she said impatiently. "What are you going to wear at the Elliot-Smith's party next week, Rose?" "I have got a new white dress," said Rose in that voice of strong animation and interest which the mere mention of dress always arouses in certain people. "Have you? What a lot of dresses you get!" "Indeed, you are mistaken, Annie.
A vivid picture rose up before Priscilla's eyes as she spoke of Mrs. Elliot-Smith's drawing-room, and the dainty, disdainful ladies in their gay attire, and her own poor, little forlorn figure in her muddy cashmere dress the same dress Aunt Raby considered soft and beautiful as velvet. "Oh, Aunt Raby," she said with sudden impulse, "a great many things have happened to me since I went away.
Benet's were wont to patronize. Prissie felt glad she was not attired in it that unfortunate day when she sat in Mrs. Elliot-Smith's drawing-room; and yet and yet she knew that the poor, quaint, old-world jacket meant love and self-renunciation. "Dear Aunt Raby!" whispered the girl.
I wanted a great many things, and she said she simply could not give them. Oh, if only that spiteful Miss Oliphant had not prevented my getting the sealskin jacket, and if she had not raised the price of Polly's pink coral!" "Don't begin that old story again, Rose. When all is said and done, you have got the lovely coral. By the way, it will come in beautifully for the Elliot-Smith's party.
I never have a penny to bless myself with. I don't know how I scrape along." Rosalind sighed. Her pretty face looked absolutely careworn. "Don't fret, Rose," said Miss Day after a pause; "whether you have paid for the coral or not, you can wear it at the Elliot-Smith's." "No, alas! that's just what I can't do. The fact is Polly is turning out awfully mean.
Oh, your face, Rosie! your face! and Meta Elliot-Smith's enjoyment oh, how delicious the picture is! Dear Rosalind, do wear the coral, and please please get me an invitation to the Elliot-Smiths'. I'll love you all my life if you give me leave to witness so lovely a spectacle!" Miss Merton's face changed color several times while Annie Day was speaking.
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