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Let me have it just as it is." "And the lining's torn. No, Matilda, I shan't make you a present of a damaged article. I shall send it back. They must change it for me." "I don't care for any other but that," she said; "and you can't match it." "Oh, lor!" he thought, "and she knows every inch of it. The goddess must give it up; it'll be all the same to her.
"Ho no, misss! you cuts the body out of the gores you throws hout, misss " "Well, if you get the body out of them, there must be a waist!" Jack broke in, as he sat fondling Miss Lining's tom-cat. "Ho no, sir!" said Miss Lining, who couldn't have seen a joke to save her dignity. "They cuts to good add-vantage, sir." The mystery was now clear to me, and Jack saw this by my face.
"It's a disappointment to me that the whole thing isn't settled and done with by this time. But I always leave Robert to decide such matters, and Robert thought 'twas best to wait till Mr. Ware's visit. Ouch! My goodness gracious, Persis! You must take my arm for a pin-cushion." This time Persis' contrition was not assumed. "I'm awfully sorry, Mis' Hornblower. The lining's so thin.
There's been an advertisement at the end of it for months, like a fly-leaf, of Norton's chamomile pills." And as I unravelled to Eleanor the mystery of our dressmaking difficulties, we could hear Jack convulsing Mrs. Arkwright with a perfect reproduction of Miss Lining's accent "Them pills that's spoke so well of in your magazine. Yisss, m'm."
I went out to clear my brain by a walk, and happening, as I returned, to meet Jack, I confided our woes to him. One could tell Jack anything. "You've got it wrong somehow," said Jack, "linking" me. "Come to Miss Lining's." Miss Lining was our village dressmaker. A very bad one certainly, but still she could gore a skirt.
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