The whole, if whole it could be called, was a miserable attempt at combining fancy and fashion, and, in result, an ugly nothing.
"I see you don't like it!" said Hesper, with a mingling of displeasure and dismay.

"I wish you had come a few days sooner! It is much too late to do anything now.

I might just as well have gone without showing it to you!--Here, Folter!" With a look almost of disgust, she began to pull off the dress, in which, a few hours later, she would yet make the attempt to enchant an assembly.
"O ma'am!" cried Mary, "I wish you had told me yesterday.

There would have been time then .-- And I don't know," she added, seeing disgust change to mortification on Hesper's countenance, "but something might be done yet." "Oh, indeed!" dropped from Folter's lips with an indescribable expression.
"What can be done ?" said Hesper, angrily.

"There can be no time for anything." "If only we had the stuff!" said Mary.