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His petticoats haunt him, and really he is angry that it is so. Dear first pair of breeches! I love you, because you are a faithful friend, and I encounter at every step in life you and your train of sweet sensations. Are you not the living image of the latest illusion caressed by our vanity?
His maiden sister 'Northcote in petticoats, she was often called, she was so like him in face, figure, and manner superintended his frugal household. Its economy was simple enough. The brother and sister were of one opinion. 'Half the world died of over-feeding, they said. They went into an opposite extreme, and nearly starved themselves.
"Good " I said to myself "I shall see now at last this maniac with a taste for darned petticoats!" The pipe smoked peacefully, steadily on. The beret was motionless. Between the pipe and the cap was a man's profile; it was too much in shadow to be clearly defined. The next instant the man's face was in full sunlight.
A mass of tulle petticoats, in the midst of which two little feet in the air, and a crown rolling away in the distance. The picture he made of me was the mechanical doll, ribbons floating all about, and on every turn of the ribbons was written "Beware!" The diplomat's shoe was not forgotten. There was a table a mile long, and at the very end of it a little shoe seen underneath.
As they entered there came a swift rustle of petticoats at their heels, and Mr. Caryll stood aside, bowing, to give passage to a tall lady who swept by with no more regard for him than had he been one of the house's lackeys. She was, he observed, of middle-age, lean and aquiline-featured, with an exaggerated chin, that ended squarely as boot.
This emotion was not at all theoretic, it was not even in a high degree sentimental; he had thought very little about the "position" of women, and he was not familiar either sympathetically or otherwise, with the image of a President in petticoats.
Three or four village girls, returning from the well or brook with pitchers and pails upon their heads, formed more pleasing objects, and, with their thin short-gowns and single petticoats, bare arms, legs, and feet, uncovered heads and braided hair, somewhat resembled Italian forms of landscape.
Sure enough, when they came to look, there was a great bundle rolled in a sheet under the bed all lace things and petticoats and ribbons and dressing-gowns and ladies' flummery. "If you will put the things in something else, I'll catch the express to Dover and take it with me," Father said to Mrs.
We have nothing but petticoats here and shimmeys." "Then what must I do?" exclaimed Smallbones. "Oh, I see, your shirt is torn off your back. Well, never mind, I'll lend you a shimmey." "Yes, Mistress Nancy, but it be more worse than that; I an't got no behind to my trousers, they pulled it out when they pulled me into the boat. I sticks to this here rock for decency's sake. What must I do?"
For instance, there is real humour and insight in the nicknames of "a golden sheep" which he gave to the rich and placid Silanus, and of "Ulysses in petticoats," by which he designated his grandmother, the august Livia. The two epigrammetic criticisms which he passed upon the style of Seneca are not wholly devoid of truth; he called his works Commissiones meras, or mere displays.
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