Beadle's Dime Novels No. 14 — page 105: what you’re looking at

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DELIGHTS OF SHOPPING. 103 Then, also, he has determined to be a rich man, if persever- ance an@*talent can make him one. Perhaps in this he hopes for some future revenge. Pennon has had a confidential interview with Mrs. Butter- by, in which he has informed her that he shall want her best front parlor and bedroom after the eighteenth of October, and that he will furnish them himself, at which she is delighted and promises to keep his secret. ¥ Mrs. Fenelon is in her element. If there has been a care upon her mind since her own husband was secured, it has been that her darling sister was yet unprovided for. She has held up her pretty hands many times in horror at the careless- ness with which Rosalie dismissed her suitors. But now there is really a wedding on hand. She can pore over the report . of bridal fashions and costumes, of coiffures, gloves, bonnets, ete., to her heart’s content. It is the only kind of literature which she really loves, and her discussions upon the subjects treated of, prove her a critic and woman of unimpeachable taste. She can go out shopping every day and not be called extravagant by her loving and indulgent husband, for is she * not shopping for the bride? Rosalie is not exempt from a passion for these things, like- wise; but a deeper passion, a pure emotion has been awaken- ed in her nature, never to sleep again, and as she dreams glowing dreams of the future, and her heart swells with a new, strange she is not sorry to allow her sister to assume the responsibility of the trousseaw. comicbooks.com