Oakley." However, to the young lady herself she said nothing, except suggesting, rather meekly, that it was time to change her dress.
"And just once more let me beg you to take my shawl--my very best-- instead of your own, which you have had a year and a half.

Ah!" sighing, "if you had only spent more money on your wedding clothes!" "How could I ?" said Christian, and stopped, seeing Dr.Grey enter.
This was the one point on which she had resisted him.

She could not accept her trousseau from her husband's generosity.

It had been the last struggle of that fierce, poverty-nurtured independence, which nothing short of perfect love could have extinguished into happy humility, and she had held to her point resolute and hard; so much so, that when, with a quiet dignity peculiarly his own, Dr.Grey had yielded, she had afterward almost felt ashamed.

And even now a slight blush came in her cheek when she heard him say cheerfully, "Do not trouble her, Mrs.Ferguson, about her shawl.