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The large plate-glass windows present a tempting array of jewelry, laces, silver-ware and rich fancy goods, in a style and of a quality that would do no discredit to the Rue de la Paix or the Boulevard des Italiens. Indeed, it is mostly French people who keep these shops, and there is a manifest tendency of the upper classes to adopt French manners, customs, and language.
Several times a month, dressed as a nun or as a peddler of laces or small linen articles, as a rich merchant's wife or a religious pilgrim, she rode or walked about with a sack on her back, or a valise in her hand. Everywhere, in the train, in the steamers, in hotels and inns, she behaved simply and unobtrusively.
The flower booths are offering country laces and finding no buyers. The fruit sellers have only shrivelled apples to sell. Now, at a little after midday, the market is over. The canvas booths have been taken down, packed on small handcarts and trundled away; unsold merchandise is on its way back to the farm to wait for another week and another market.
In the morning when I left my room, I saw placed in line before the door his boots and mine. His were little laced-up boots rather out of shape, and dulled by the rough usage to which he subjects them. The sole of the left boot was worn thin, and a little hole was threatening at the toe of the right. The laces, worn and slack, hung to the right and left.
He is one of my inamoratos, Sir; They call him Mounsir Device. Sir Fr. Lady, your faire excuse. He has, it seemes, Some confidence to prevaile upon your liking That he hath bought so many Bride laces. Sis. You may interpret him a walking mirth. Sir Fr. He moves upon some skrues and may be kinsman To the engine that is drawne about with Cakebread, But that his outside's brighter. De.
If a radish can be so proclaimed, there might be a lilt devised in praise of other pleasing merceries a tripping pizzicato for laces and frippery a brave trumpeting for some newest cereal.
Heath tells us it was incredible to think "what costly cloathes were worn that day. The cloaks could hardly be seen what silk or satin they were made of, for the gold and silver laces and embroidery that was laid upon them; the like also was seen on their foot-cloathes.
She lifted the silver scissors that hung from her chatelaine and succeeded in severing one of the long stems. "Here, little girl," she added, advancing to Eloise, "you need this in your white gown to cheer us up this rainy day." The girl shrank and opened her lips to decline, but restrained herself and submitted to have the flower pinned amid her laces. Jewel gazed at her in open admiration.
Virginia, panic-stricken, darted forward, but the Doctor held out a restraining hand. "Don't, child let her cry. It will do her good." "Fanny! Where are my scissors? Did you take my scissors?" Seated in the centre of the small parlor, before a round table fairly well lighted by an electrolier suspended from the middle of the ceiling and littered with chiffons and laces, Mrs.
I wish I could think, now, of something to say that would show you I'm not a brute but I can't. There was not much of the night left in which to sleep, even had a semblance of sleep been achievable. The letter fell from Susy's hands, and she crept out onto the balcony and cowered there, her forehead pressed against the balustrade, the dawn wind stirring in her thin laces.
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