But ten dollars was all she had, and turning away from the tempting silk she answered faintly, that "it was superb, but she could not afford it, besides, she had not the money to-day." "Not the slightest consequence," was Harney's quick rejoinder.

"Not the slightest consequence.

Your brother's credit is good--none better in the country, and I'm sure he'll be proud to see you in it.

I should, were I your brother." 'Lina blushed, while the wish to possess the silk grew every moment stronger.
"If it were only fifty dollars, it would not seem so bad," she thought.
Hugh could manage it some way, and Mr.Harney was so good natured; he could wait a year, she knew.

But the making would cost ten dollars more, for that was the price Miss Allis charged, to say nothing of the trimmings.