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Carrie was attired in the pale blue nun's-veiling. It was Carrie's way to have a dress and to wear it morning, noon, and night, destroying all its freshness. The nun's-veiling was already dirty and draggled-looking. "How do you think I got that dress that you made such a fuss about if I had not money to pay for it?" "I am sure I couldn't tell, and what's more, I didn't care," said Carrie.
This fashion is very much objected to by doctors, who think many diseases of the eye come by this means, and advise for common use thin nun's-veiling instead of crape, which sheds its pernicious dye into the sensitive nostrils, producing catarrhal disease as well as blindness and cataract of the eye. It is a thousand pities that fashion dictates the crape veil, but so it is.
One cannot get very much from passing ships, so Graham is rather anxious we should go to Cape Town to get a supply of food, if for nothing else. I expect it will end in our going if a chance occurs. Ellen is busy making a pale blue nun's-veiling blouse for Emma Hagan. You would hardly have thought there would have been such vanities here. The material was sent by some relations at the Cape.
Oh! wasn't it just the darling entirely! Here's one of the dresses. Now, what do you think of that?" As Kitty spoke she pulled out a pink nun's-veiling, made up with innumerable ruffles and frills and laces and embroidery, a really very pretty dress for quite a gay party, but totally unsuitable for a schoolgirl of Kitty Malone's age. "Why, it's a long dress?" said Alice. "How old are you, Kitty?"
"Now I won't tell you my secret," and she was off like a gale of wind. Éloise shook her head and wondered. In the atelier Hubert painted. Elaine sat on a dais, her hands folded in her lap; about her head twisted nun's-veiling gave her the old-fashioned quality of a Cosway miniature the very effect he had sought.
Munsberg gave the name of a dressmaker of whom she shrewdly guessed that she would be amiably ready to talk to a society-page reporter. "That Biker feller," she said, "got things down all wrong. He called fine white satin 'white nun's-veiling, and he left out things. Never said nothing about Miss Lewishon's diamond ring what her grandpa gave her for a wedding-present.
"I knocked at your door several times, and you didn't answer," said Carrie; "so then I opened it softly and came in, and you were half-sitting, half-kneeling by your bed, sound asleep; and your skirt did look so very fashionable that I was tempted! oh yes, I have taken the pattern in my mind's eye. I'll alter my blue nun's-veiling.
It was made of pink nun's-veiling, which she had got very cheap as a bargain at Shaw's when the summer sale was over. The dress was made simply, quite high to the throat, with long sleeves, but the plain skirt and rather severe-looking bodice, with its frill of lace round the throat and wrists, gave Alison that curiously refined, ladylike appearance which was so rare in her station of life.
'I had some views, but, of course, I should be so glad to have your opinion about it. I only saw Hamlet once, and the lady was dressed in white, with a gauzy light nun's-veiling over it. I thought that with white pongee silk as an under-dress, and then some sort of delicate 'Crepe de Chine, Maude suggested. 'But in Ophelia's day such a thing had never been heard of, said Mrs. Hunt Mortimer.
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