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I hain't got a delaine one to my name. "Sometimes I get my temper up, and tell him I will have something to wear as well as other folks, but he says he goes without as well as I, and there ain't no use of our laying out everything for finery. "Don't you think its about time for me to strike for something that people, that call themselves decent, have to wear?"
Such finery was brought over in so large a quantity that more than one mémoire to the home government censured the "spirit of extravagance" of which this was one outward manifestation. In the towns the officials and the well-to-do merchants dressed elaborately on all occasions of ceremony, with scarlet cloaks and perukes, buckled slippers and silk stockings.
Many of the inhabitants of this part of Slavonia are Croatians people who are noted for their fondness of finery; and, as on this sunny Sunday morning we wheel through their villages, the crowds of peasantry who gather about us in all the bravery of their best clothes present, indeed, an appearance gay and picturesque beyond anything hitherto encountered.
"No, but one can't get on without them; they bring the men and the children after them. And it's really queer that they should for women don't bother themselves about God! They haven't the faculty of going behind things. They choose only according to the outside they want to hang everything on their bodies as finery and the men too, yes, and the dear God best of all they've got a use for the lot!"
It appeared to be a servant in a striking livery of green with yellow facings and crested silver buttons, but still more remarkable for the indescribable mingling of jaunty ease and conscious dignity with which he carried off his finery.
When he had hastily passed approval of them he turned to Mary and said: "Where is thy finery? Open thou thy chest and bring forth thy treasures also." In reply Mary opened her chest and took out an alabaster vase of rare design.
The girl had helped "spruce up" Aunt 'Mira long since, so that they could go to church together on Sundays. But now the good lady was in the throes of making herself a silk dress for best a black silk. It was the thing she had longed for most, and now she could satisfy the craving for clothes that had so obsessed her. Aunt 'Mira loved finery.
A tattered cloak, the cast-off finery of a dandy of the palmy days of the old Knights of Malta, covered his shoulders, as did, in part, his legs, a pair of blue cloth trousers, through which his knees obtruded, and which were fringed with torn stripes at the feet. Such of his features as were visible were as ill-favoured as well could be.
It's you I want, not your wedding finery. You had better be married first and get the finery afterwards, as it isn't to be in town." "Oh, but I want a big wedding," protested Dinah. "It's going to be such fun." He laughed, holding her pointed chin between his finger and thumb. "I believe that's all you care about, you little heartless witch. I don't count at all.
To change the subject, he took up the bag the young ladies had been admiring. "What fanciful name may belong to this piece of finery; for, of course, it is not a bag?" he asked. "Oh, it is too useful, not to have a straight-forward, common name; you may call it a sac, though, if you like. I could not think of anything more imaginative; can you, Jane?"
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