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But the making would cost ten dollars more , for that was the price Miss Allis charged , to say nothing of the trimmings . `` No , I ca n't , '' she said , quite decidedly , at last , asking for the lace with which she at first intended renovating her old pink silk , `` She must see Miss Allis first to know how much she wanted , '' and promising to return , she tripped over to Frankfort 's fashionable dressmaker , whom she found surrounded with dresses for the party . As some time would elapse ere Miss Allis could attend to her , she went back to Harney 's just for one more look at the lovely fabric . It was , if possible , more beautiful than before , and Harney was more polite , while the result of the whole was that , when ` Lina at four o'clock that afternoon entered her carriage to go home , the despised pink silk , still unpaid on Haney 's books , was thrown down anywhere , while in her hands she carefully held the bundle Harney brought himself , complimenting her upon the sensation she was sure to create , and inviting her to dance the first set with him . Then with a smiling bow he closed the door upon her , and returning to his books wrote down Hugh Worthington his debtor to fifty dollars more . `` That makes three hundred and fifty , '' he said to himself . `` I know he ca n't raise that amount of ready money , and as he is too infernal proud to be sued , I 'm sure of Rocket or Lulu , it matters but little which , '' and with a look upon his face which made it positively hideous , the scheming Harney closed his books , and sat down to calculate the best means of managing the rather unmanageable Hugh !