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It took some time to dress Miss Moppet in the silken petticoat and puffed skirt, the tiny mobcap and white ribbons, which Kitty had considered proper for the occasion, and Betty found she must hasten her own toilet, or be late herself.
Also, her large grey head, with its keen, rugged features, remained always erect as she glanced about her in an imperious, challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied. Though she had reached her seventy-sixth year, her face was still fresh, and her teeth had not decayed. Lastly, she was dressed in a black silk gown and white mobcap.
That will rivet the fetters all the faster; and when you have got him like a tame bear at the end of a chain why then you can make up your mind at leisure what you will end by doing." Gertrude sprang up suddenly, and faced Lady Scrope with flushed cheeks and glowing eyes. The little witch-like woman with her black-handled stick and her mobcap was no unfrequent visitor to this shut-up house.
And now Barnabas saw that, with her apron and mobcap, the country serving-maid had vanished quite. In her stead was a noble woman, proud and stately, whose clear, sad eyes returned his gaze with a gentle dignity; Clemency indeed was gone, but Beatrix had come to life. Yet, when he spoke, Barnabas used the name he had known her by first. "Clemency," said he, "your father is seeking for you."
Behind the old lady's chair marched Potapitch and Martha Potapitch in his frockcoat and white waistcoat, with a cloak over all, and the forty-year-old and rosy, but slightly grey-headed, Martha in a mobcap, cotton dress, and squeaking shoes. Frequently the old lady would twist herself round to converse with these servants.
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