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Moved by a strange is took hia, and thither, the first week

in August, cae trunks, her niece and

her niece's wardrobe, which had cost the pretty suhteen

hundred dollars

Mrs Meredith was not naturally lavish of her money except where her

own interests were concerned, as they were in Anna's case Conscious

of having come between her niece and the man she loved, she determined

that in the procuring of a substitute for this es

which dress could afford should be lacking Besides, Thornton Hastings

was a perfect connoisseur in everything pertaining to a lady's toilet,

and it ith him and his preference before her ht so extensively There

were sun hats and round hats, and hats _Ã la cavalier_--there were

bonnets and veils, and dresses and shawls of every color and kind,

with the lesser loves and slippers and fans,

the wholean array such as Anna had never seen before, and from

which she at first shrank back appalled and dismayed But she was not

now quite so much of a novice as when she first reached New York the

Saturday following the picnic at Prospect Hill She had passed

successfully and safely through the hands of mantua-makers, milliners