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A Simpleton

CHAPTER IX
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"I know you would like your Rosa to look as well as Mrs.Vivian." "No one ever looks as well, in my eyes, as my Rosa.

There, the dress will add nothing to your beauty; but go and get it, to please yourself; it is very considerate of you to have chosen something of which you have ten yards, already.

See, dear, I'm to receive twenty pounds for this article; if research was paid it ought to be a hundred.

I shall add it all to your allowance for dresses this year.

So no debt, mind; but come to me for everything." The two ladies drove off to Madame Cie's, a pretty shop lined with dark velvet and lace draperies.
In the back room they were packing a lovely bridal dress, going off the following Saturday to New York.
"What, send from America to London ?" "Oh, dear, yes!" exclaimed Madame Cie.


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