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Old Uncle Tom was warming up to his work, and the fun waxed furious. Asia, looking very pretty in her new crepon, cast shy glances at Joe Eichorn, who had been "keeping company" of late. Billy, for whom there was no room in the reel, let off his energy in the corner by a noisy execution of the "Mobile Buck."
The lovely brown crepon, she said it was the most hideous thing she had ever seen, and that it was the deed of an assassin to offer it to me. And when I said I couldn't take so many, she snatched up the scissors, and was going to cut them all up she really was, Margaret. What could I do?" "Nothing, dear child, except take them, I really think.
But Lord! how many people it takes to marry a man like Chilvers! How sacred the union must be! Pray take a paragraph more: "The four bridesmaids Miss etc., etc. wore cream crepon dresses trimmed with turquoise blue velvet, and hats to match. The bridegroom's presents to them were diamond and ruby brooches." 'Chilvers in excelsis! So he is no longer at Exeter; has no living, it seems.
With the black crepon skirt she wore a heliotrope blouse, and she stood, one foot showing beyond the skirt, in a statue-like attitude, her pale parasol held negligently over one shoulder. "My dear," she said, "I have come to ask you to let me lunch with you." "But I shall be enchanted, my dear. I wrote on the chance, never thinking that you would be in town this season." "Yes, it is strange.
But before he could glance at the letter there was the quick patter of his wife's feet upon the stair, and she burst, full of girlish health and high spirits, into the little room. She wore a pink crepon dressing-gown, with cream guipure lace at the neck and wrists. Pink ribbon outlined her trim waist.
"I wonder," remarked Cleopatra, as she cocked her head to one side to take in the full effect of an attractive summer gown "I wonder how that waist would make up in blue crepon, with a yoke of lace and a stylishly contrasting stock of satin ribbon?" "It would depend upon how you finished the sleeves," remarked Madame Recamier.
Loulou, for of course it was she, wore a cream-colored silk crepon dress. Her little feet in pale yellow satin shoes played at hide-and-seek under her skirt. She looked charming, and seemed very happy. She danced with a magic lightness and gracefulness, and she showed an endurance which had elicited applause and acknowledgments from her partners.
Rosalind will be in pink from head to foot, you may depend on it," said Robert confidently; whereupon Mellicent rushed headlong from the room to find her mother, and plead eagerly that summer crepon dresses of the desired tint should be brought forth from their hiding-place and freshened up for the occasion.
Three separate gasps of admiration greeted her appearance, and she stood smiling and dimpling while the girls took in the fascinating details the satin frock of palest imaginable pink, the white chiffon over-dress which fell from shoulder to hem in graceful freedom, sprinkled over with exquisite rose leaves it was all wonderful fantastic as far removed from Peggy's muslin as from the homely crepon of the vicar's daughters.
I jes' do the best I kin where the good Lord put me at, an' it looks like I got a happy feelin' in me 'most all the time." Lucy sat silent for a while, gazing out of the window. Mrs. Wiggs's philosophy was having its effect. Presently she rose and untied the bundle she held. "Here is a dress I brought for Asia," she said, shaking out the folds of a soft crepon. "Umph, umph!
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