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"I can see," said Edith, "how social emulation should make the masses imitate the richer and superior class, and how the fashions should in this way be set; but why were they changed so often, when it must have been so terribly expensive and troublesome to make the changes?"
Even since the insulation of Britain a great many new plants and animals have been added to our population, both by human design and in several other casual fashions. The fallow deer is said to have been introduced by the Romans, and domesticated ever since in the successive parks of Celt and Saxon, Dane and Norman.
Drink was not responsible for his present estimate of himself; it had merely opened the gates to expression. Simmy's scrutiny took in the fine, powerful body of this incompetent giant,—for he was a giant to Simmy,—and out of his appraisal grew a fresh complaint against the Force that fashions men with such cruel inconsistency.
Hither came, to acquire the fashions, make assignations, arrange for the night's gaming, or shun the bailiff, the gallant, the gamester, the ladies whose dresses were better than their manners, the stale knight, the captain out of service. Here Falstaff purchased Bardolph. "I bought him," say's the knight, "at Paul's."
"Granting your position to be true, Mary, which I am not fully prepared to admit or deny why should we blindly follow these fashions?" "We need not blindly. For my part, I am sure that I do not blindly follow them." "You do when you adopt a fashion without thinking it becoming." "That I never do." "But, surely, you do not pretend to say that all fashions are becoming?"
Unlike Starkad Ingild flung the example of his ancestors to the winds, and gave himself freer licence of innovation in the fashions of the table than the custom of his fathers allowed. For when he had once abandoned himself to the manners of Teutonland, he did not blush to yield to its unmanly wantonness.
The young woman who "had no objections to the country," objected no more to these pleasant country fashions of neighborly kindness. She had reason.
Accustomed now to the little things of life, she wore the fashions of the period with infinite grace. When she chanced about this time to visit a salon she found herself not without a certain inward surprise received by all with respectful esteem. These changed feelings and this welcome were due to the two vicars-general and to old Grossetete.
In Paris you may see giddy young things hastening to adopt the tone and fashions of the town for some six months, so that they may spend the rest of their life in disgrace; but who gives any heed to those who, disgusted with the rout, return to their distant home and are contented with their lot when they have compared it with that which others desire.
"I will try to bring you out something which will give you pleasure," replied Captain Sinclair, "but as for the fashions, I know you are only joking, by your trusting a person so incompetent as I am to select them." "Well, I do not think you would execute my commission very well, so I will not trouble you," replied Emma; "and now let us know why you are going to England." "My dear Emma," said Mr.
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