A Struggle for a Ring — page 58: what you’re looking at

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5 54 A SHOCKED HUSBAND. The first day was to her one rapture of wonder. ‘That she should be in sunny Paris—that all those marvelous shops should be open to her—that she could go where she would, buy what she liked—that a beautifully-appointed carriage was always at her service, were marvels to her. With his characteristic generosity, Lord Vivian had given her a little roll of bank notes. ‘*You have never enjoyed the luxury of a day’s shop- ping, Ailie, have your” he asked. ‘«Never,”’ she replied. / One great charm in Ailie was her frank, fearless fashion of always speaking the exact truth. } ‘‘T have only spent one sovereign in a shop in all my life,”’ she said. “Tt is incredible; and yet they say ladies are so fond of shopping.” _ , ‘‘Ladies who have plenty of money—I have never had any, she replied. ‘‘How could I enjoy shopping?” ‘Well, you want many things—I do not even know the names of the little elegancies you require. My sisters are, I think, the best dressed girls in England—I should like you to dress like them—plain, simple elegance— /. everything good, nothing fine. It is very easy.” ‘‘For your sisters, Vivian; they are ladies—they have always been ladies.” ‘“You are a lady,” he said, hastily. ‘‘Do not speak in that fashion, Ailie. My sisters are simple, well-bred girls, nothing out of the common,” She smiled sadly. ‘“You and I have lived in such different worlds,” she said; “‘simple, well-bred elegance belongs to yours, not mine.” ‘“Well, we belong to the same world now, Ailie; anda (e(e) Comicboo CS