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In our section of the country servants were generally quite conversant with the intimate and personal affairs of the home. "Don't you never do it, Mr. Wade," she counseled. "Ready-mades ain't for the likes of her."
I never have been but that once, and then grandma had to go to the dentist; grandpa could not go with her and didn't want her to go alone." "But what about your clothes and things? Don't you have to go there for them?" "Grandma never gets me ready-mades. Miss Almira Belt makes everything I wear. Do you suppose she always will do it?"
He was decently clothed in ready-mades and almost recovered, roughly speaking, from his bout of the previous night. But he was full of melancholy. Bullard's fee for the opening of the Green Box, not to mention the small fortune annexed from Mr. Marvel, was all gone. What he had not lost over the cards had been stolen while he lay fuddled.
These garments, as will be remembered, had been obtained in haste, and were of the kind known in the trade as "ready-mades," and in this case composed of a well-glazed and pressed material, containing just enough wool to hold together a great deal of shoddy.
And, Gabe, after you've worn tailored suits every year for a dozen years, you can't go back to twenty-five-dollar ready-mades and be happy." "You could if you loved a man," said Gabe stubbornly. The hard lines around the jaw and the experienced lines about the eyes seemed suddenly to stand out on Effie's face. "Love's young dream is all right.
He was dressed in a checkered suit of ready-mades which did not fit him, and his blond head was covered with a cap such as German comedians use on the stage. "Hello, Dutch!" Jack called out. "Irish!" exclaimed the other. Jack threw out his right hand in full salute, wondering if the German boy was a member of the Boy Scout army, and was pleased to see him make an awkward attempt to respond.
They revised the plans for the furnishing of the hall the china closet could stand against the west wall of the dining-room; why had they not thought of that before? The little room upstairs was to be a sewing-room "Although I hate sewing," cried Lydia, "and nowadays, when ready-mades are so cheap and good "
Miss Sternberger's yellow scarf lay like a limp rag on her shoulders. "You're a perfect thirty-six, ain't you, little one?" "That's what they say when I try on ready-mades," she replied, with sweet reticence. "Gee!" he said. "Wouldn't I like you in some of my models! Maybe if you ain't no snitch I'll show you the colored plates some day." "I ain't no snitch," she said.
His manner of wearing an invisible cloak, sword and buckler, though actually garbed in ready-mades, thrilled her. She had come of a good family; he of, seemingly, no family at all. When the two married, Milly's people went through that ablutionary process known as washing their hands of her. Thus ideally mismated they tried to make the best of it and failed. At least, Sam Pardee failed.
Wrenn do likewise and avoid the wrong bunch at the Caravanserai; for besides the wrong bunch of Interesting People there were, she explained, a right bunch, of working artists. But he wanted to get some new clothes, to replace his rain-wrinkled ready-mades.
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