Though setting a high value upon money, Madam Conway was not penurious, and the bridal trousseau far exceeded anything which Theo had expected.

She told her all that she intended doing as regarded the elaborate and magnificent trousseau preparing for her.

It seemed a strange thing to have to furnish a trousseau from the wardrobe of everyday lifea trousseau in which nothing, except half-a-dozen pairs of gloves, a pair of boots, and a few odds and ends of lace and ribbons would be actually new.

Has she not the handsomest bridegroom and the most expensive trousseau, of this marriage month?

"Why, baby, a girl couldn't have a finer trousseau than the old linens back yet from Russia that me and gramaw got saved up for our girllinen that can't be bought these days.

But I was going to say that you, being the only other Melcombe, you know, and you and I liking one another, I wish to act a brotherly part by you; and therefore, when you have bought yourself a handsome trousseau and a piano, and everything a lady ought to have, and your passage is paid for, I wish to make up whatever is left of your five hundred pounds to a thousand, that you may not go almost portionless to your husband.

oh, such a lovely trousseau!

It would seem a short time wherein to get up a reasonable trousseau, even!"