You live such a domestic life that you are scarcely better informed than I as to the latest modes.

We will drive in the park, use our eyes on the avenue, and visit several fashionable establishments first.

Then I wish to find a dressmaker who is not an idiotic slave of fashion, and who can modify the prevailing styles by taste and appreciation of the person for whom she works.

The one whom I employ must make dresses for me and under my direction, and not dresses in the abstract, as if they were for the iron-framed form on which she exhibits her wares." "Good!" cried Mr.Muir; "Madge's head is level.

Let her have her own way, Mary, and she will come out all right." "Well," said Mrs.Muir, "I suppose it will take a little time for me to get used to all these changes.