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"Lor'!" she exclaimed aloud, "if here isn't Lilac White!" It was a slight little figure clothed in a cotton frock which had once been blue in colour, but had been washed so very often that it now approached a shade of green; over it was a long straight pinafore gathered round the neck with a string, and below it appeared blue worsted stockings, and thick, laced boots.
If a young person has been sent to a fashionable boarding-school, it is ten to one, when she returns home, whether she can mend her own stockings, or boil a piece of meat, or do any thing more than preside over the flippant ceremonies of the tea-table. Each extreme ought to be avoided, and care taken to unite in the female character, the cultivation of talents and habits of usefulness.
"I can't be sure I am going to be happy, but I can be that I am going to be unhappy, and sometimes it lasts for ever so long." "You poor little suffering martyr," said Dr. Trenire, "what is wrong now?" "It's my stockings," said Betty solemnly. "Whatever is wrong with your stockings? Stand still, child, can't you, and tell me." "No," said Betty, "I can't, my legs itch so.
Washington, and were utterly amazed to find her wearing a striped homespun apron, and busily engaged in knitting stockings.
Tightly fitting white stockings with green clocks, short skirts, and the pointed, high-heeled slippers of Louis XV.'s time contributed somewhat, I fancy, to the demoralization of Europe and the clergy." "Somewhat!" exclaimed the marchioness. "Have you read nothing, pray?"
In a word, he was tortured, and died of it. See, I added, kicking off one shoe, for I had no stockings; 'I was no more than a child, and see how they had begun to treat myself. He looked at the mark of my old burn with a certain shrinking. 'Beastly people! I heard him mutter to himself. 'The English may say so with a good grace, I observed politely.
The Stiller of the Storm "It's Christmas eve at home," murmured the young lad after he had said his prayers and tumbled into his narrow berth on the great ship. "I suppose they're trimming the Christmas tree now and hanging up the stockings. I wish I were there."
Nobody at present located at Mauleverer Manor remembered that young lady from Barbados, nor had any of the existing pupils ever seen the ghost. But the general faith in him was unshaken. He was described as an elderly man in a snuff-coloured, square-cut coat, knee-breeches, and silk stockings rolled up over his knees.
I lay in my drawers and stockings and wastecoate till five of the clock, and so up; and being well pleased with our frolique, walked to Knightsbridge, and there eat a messe of creame, and so to St. James's, and there walked a little, and so I to White Hall, and took coach, and found my wife well got home last night, and now in bed.
I don't think we stopped again till we got to Lyons, and all the way there I sat at the window looking at the landscape the long, long plain that the French peasant cultivates unceasingly. Out of that long plain came all the money that was lost in Panama, and all the money invested in Russian bonds fine milliards came out of the French peasants' stockings. We passed through La Beauce.
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