What we are wishing for--though I don't know that we really _want_ anything--do we, girls?
But what we might buy, if you had it very cheap, is a bit of something light and airy that would make up very elegantly for the evening.

Do you care to have another evening-dress, Matty?
I know you have a good few in your wardrobe." "I don't know," said Matty, "until I see what Mrs.Middlemass has.

I don't want anything common.

I can get common things at Perry's; and perhaps I had better send for my best dress to London, ma." This remark of giggling Miss Matty's was really astute for she knew that Mrs.Middlemass held Perry, the draper, in the most sovereign contempt.
"Right you are, my dear," said the pedler, a smile of gratified vanity spreading over her face, "you _can_ get your common things, and very common things they'll be, at Perry's.

But maybe old Auntie Middlemass can give you something as genteel as the London shops.