"I should be pleased to have her go. It is right she should enjoy herself with the rest of the young folks," said Miss Hagar.
"There! you hear that? Now you go and get ready!"
"But really, dear Gipsy——"
"Now, none of your 'dear Gipsy-ing' me! I won't listen to another word! You must come; that's the whole of it," said Gipsy, seizing the work, and throwing it into a corner, and pulling the laughing Celeste by main force from the room.
"But, Gipsy, why are you so anxious for me to go with you to-night?" said Celeste, when they had reached her chamber.
"Oh, because I have my raysons for it," as little Pat Flynn says. "Now I want you to look your very prettiest to-night, Celeste. In fact, you must be perfectly irresistible."
"I am afraid you are going to play me some trick, Gipsy!" said Celeste, smiling and hesitating.
"Oh! honor bright! Come, hurry up! Put on your white muslin; you look better in it than anything else."
"Besides being the best dress I have," said Celeste, as she took it down, for the cottage maiden always dressed with the utmost plainness and simplicity.
"I'll run out and gather you some rosebuds for your hair," said Gipsy, as Celeste began to dress.