"I s'pose everybody in town will go to church next Sunday," said Mrs.
Hawkins, "to see them brides."
"Will they look any different than they did the other day?" Betsy
innocently inquired.
"Well, I guess," remarked Mrs. Hawkins. "I saw Mandy yesterday and she
told me all about her trip to the city. Mrs. Chessman went shoppin' with
them, and the way she beat them shopkeepers down was a sight, Mandy
says. It beats all how them rich folks can buy things so much cheaper
than us poor people can. She took them all home to dinner, and Mandy
says she lives in the most beautifulest house she ever saw. Then she
went to the dressmakers with them, and she beat them down more'n five
dollars on each gown. Then she took 'em to the millinery store, and she
bought each one of them a great big handsome hat, with feathers and
ribbons and flowers all over 'em. Nobody has seen 'em yet, but all three
on 'em are going to wear 'em to church next Sunday, and won't there be a
stir? Nobody'll look at the new orgin."
"I wish I could go," said Betsy.
Mrs. Hawkins rattled on: "Mandy says she took 'em all into a jewelry
store, and bought each one on 'em a breast-pin, a pair of earrings, and
a putty ring, to remember her by.
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