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Then she continued: "It was all a mistake, you know, my being shown in there to-night! I would never have sought her out myself, being where she is. Oh, I have my pride! It was the servant's mistake: he took me for a fitter, no doubt, from one of the big dressmakers. Perhaps there was one expected, I don't know.
"To my dressmakers, the Misses Mechinet. I want a dress." "Great God!" cried Aunt Adelaide, "the child is losing her mind!" "I assure you I am not, aunt." "Then let me go with you." "Thank you, no. I shall go alone; that is to say, alone with dear grandpapa." And as M. de Chandore came back, his pockets full of bonds, his hat on his head, and his cane in his hand, she carried him off, saying,
Bok now followed the French models of dresses and millinery to the United States, and soon found that for every genuine Parisian model sold in the large cities at least ten were copies, made in New York shops, but with the labels of the French dressmakers and milliners sewed on them.
She has decided that she likes Connie's friends better than the Doctor's, that her hair doesn't feel right arranged the way it should be, that she isn't going to wear dresses made by fashionable dressmakers because they are uncomfortable. She actually told me she liked to be a few minutes out of style!" "But isn't she right?" murmured Mrs. Ivy.
Her figure in its slenderness was a thing which dressmakers adored; there was so little of it that any frock could be made to look well on it. Lady Ethelrida did everything with moderation. She was not mad about any sport or any fad. She loved her father, her aunt, her cousins of the Tancred family, and her friend, Lady Anningford. She was, in short, a fine character and a great lady.
Ah! that was because people had found a novelty, and herself of better manners than had been expected. The house was now full of preparations for the wedding. It stared her in the face every day, almost every hour. Dressmakers, milliners, tailors, and all those other necessary people. Did the others think what all this meant to her? It was impossible that they should.
For her the journals began to describe the dresses already prepared, for her a staff of tailors, dressmakers, needlewomen and jewellers were working; she would have on her contract the same signature as a princess of the blood, who would be a princess herself and related to one of the most glorious aristocracies in the world.
"For a voman vat is going up there," replied the Baron. "A way of playing Jupiter?" replied the actress. "And when is she on show?" "On the day of the house-warming," cried du Tillet. "Not before dat," said the Baron. "My word, how we must lace and brush and fig ourselves out," Florine went on. "What a dance the women will lead their dressmakers and hairdressers for that evening's fun!
If the contractors win, the Paris dressmakers will be richer, and a few families will have a little added to what they do not really need. If the workingmen win, the future of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children will be made brighter, and the citizenship of the future made stronger by men better fed, better clothed and better educated.
"Why, the ladies are the worst." "No; are they now? Ah, that reminds me. I heard there was a lady in this very house won a pot o' money." "It is true. I am her agent." "I suppose she lost it all next day?" "Well, not all, for she gave a thousand pounds to the poor." "The dressmakers collared the rest?" "I cannot say. I have nothing to do except with her theatrical business.
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