The Wooing O'T Author:Alexander Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: weary. My head aches. You will not mind my going to bed ? You see I am unused to sit up so late at night." "Yes, yes. Go to bed if you like." The next morning... more » Mrs. Grey was unusually mild, and Mr. Grey, infinitely relieved to perceive that she and Maggie had " made it up," was too happy to ask any questions. Tom, too, was relieved from his most pressing difficulty, and consequently amiable to all. In short, one of those moments of respite had come to them which occasionally visit all—without which the affairs of life would come to a deadlock. After breakfast Mrs. Grey whispered Maggie that she had better go and change the dress, putting the munificent sum of five shillings into her hand at the same time. Maggie colored. She would rather have rejected the offering —;but that would have been both foolish and unkind. So she started on her errand, too young not to be cheered by the prospect of a new dress—and to choose it herself! though she felt a little diffident at going into a shop on her own account, albeit she had often bought, not injudiciously, on commission for her aunt. Her choice was soon made—a neat black and white dress of somewhat better texture. And then, to her delight, she found she had enough money left to buy a pair of gloves also—black, stitched with white. On her return with' these treasures she was summoned to Mrs. Berry. She found that ladyr deshabille arranging some papers, and burning letters—her breakfast things not yet removed—a milliner's basket at one end of the room, and a dress, a lace scarf, and sundry other confections, as our neighbors across Channel call them, scattered about. " Well, my dear," she cried, as Maggie entered, " you are looking quite another thing to-day ! Why, you look almost pretty when you have a color. Just help me...« less