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Each one of them wore a dark blue serge skirt of ankle length and a middy blouse with a blue sailor collar. They were without hats, as they hoped to get a coating of seashore tan without wasting any time. "I shall expect you home by noon," were Miss Jenny Ann's final words as the "Water Witch" danced away from the houseboat. "Aye, aye, Skipper!" the girls called back in chorus.
While they drove under the elms, past white cottages and the village green, while they were talking so lightly and properly that none of the New England gossips could be wounded in the sense of propriety, Carl was learning her anew. She was an outdoor girl now, in low-collared blouse and white linen skirt. She was all that he had believed during her absence and doubted while he was coming to her.
A lad was at work near by, and wondering what new inmate the house had gained, the neglected guest waited to catch a glimpse of the unknown face. A slender boy, in a foreign-looking blouse of grey linen; a white collar lay over a ribbon at the throat, stout half boots covered a trim pair of feet, and a broad-brimmed hat flapped low on the forehead.
She wore a skirt of red trimmed in black and yellow, a full white blouse and a little black velvet bolero. Around her waist she had tied a gayly colored sash, while on her head was a gipsy headdress bordered with gold fringe. "Hippy," commanded Grace, "will you please take this gong and announce that the auction is about to begin!" "Certainly, certainly," answered Hippy.
We think we ought to have transplanted them earlier, but were told that July was the right month and so waited until then. Wednesday, August 14. We are awaiting our usual Wednesday guests. On these occasions I always wear a white skirt and blouse. Of our friends, Mrs. Repetto is the only one who has attempted any elegance, most have come in jackets.
'Everything must be very correct, Dick explained. 'It will become dirty afterwards, but now it is good to feel well dressed. Is everything as it should be? He patted the revolver neatly hidden under the fulness of the blouse on the right hip and fingered his collar. 'I can do no more, Madame said, between laughing and crying. 'Look at thyself but I forgot.
Thrusting it into her blouse, she bounded out into the night, and raced up the railroad track almost to the Hoghole trestle before she stopped, satisfied that no one had seen her theft. Then, taking the book from her bosom, she kissed it reverently. "Them old fools ain't goin' to have every damn Bible in this here town. I air a right like them to this un."
The blouse filled her thoughts, otherwise she might have been in raptures over her pretty silver locket and its green ribbon. But as this was for private wear, and must on no account be shown to any one who was not a member of the society, it did not give her the amount of rapture it would otherwise have done. "It is lovely too.
Isabel made her own clothes and made them badly. Her skirt was short in front and narrow below the waist, and her sailor blouse was comfortably but inelegantly loose round the armholes.
"You were right, Emma," she announced as she walked into their room where Emma sat plodding laboriously through her weekly mending. "About Evelyn?" "Yes." Emma finished the sleeve of the blouse she was mending with a flourish. Then, casting a swift, upward glance at Grace, she began singing dolorously. "Mend, mend, mend, On the waist that's weary and worn.
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