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He lived alone, except for the rather neutral presence of Aunt Hepsy, who had formerly been a village tailoress, and whose cottage he had bought with the proviso that the old woman should continue in it as "help." With Aunt Hepsy he was no more communicative than with anybody else.
She was a tailoress in the village, and went to church regularly, but, although Phineas saw her every Sunday for many weeks, he had no opportunity of the acquaintance that season. Mrs. Jerusha Wheeler and her daughter Jerusha were familiarly known, the one as "Aunt Rushia," and the other as "Rushia."
The fair tailoress smiled on him as sweetly as ever, and in the summer of 1827 they became formally engaged. In the fall Miss Hallett went "on a visit" to her uncle, Nathan Beers, in New York. A month later her lover followed, "to buy goods," and on the 8th of November, 1829, there was a wedding in the comfortable house at No. 3 Allen street.
"There's plenty that's extra, goodness knows! without buying anything." "Well," persisted the youngest Miss Snow, "I'd have open-worked stockings, and have my hair frizzed, any way." "Oh, I speak to do your hair," put in the second daughter. "You're just a lot of chickens, the whole of you," said the tailoress.
Thus and at this moment she made an agreeable picture, to which stood as background all the beautiful, wooded Southshire view. 'You don't really mean to say you are a tailoress? said Willoughby, with a sort of eager compassion. 'I do, though! An' I've bin one ever since I was fourteen. Look at my fingers if you don't b'lieve me.
And you, sir, who have been insulted by a tailoress, can stand here, and look me in the face, and still pretend to be a man! You are a scoundrel, sir a low, mean-spirited scoundrel, sir. You are nicely dressed, but you are a puppy. Dare to tell me you are not, and I will grind you under my foot, as I would grind a worm. Don't give me a word not a word! I am not in a mood to bear it!"
The mist from the falls showed white in the frosty air, and, without saying a word, they crossed the bridge, and climbed a hill dotted with little dwellings. Jim's heart was in his mouth, for his fears that ill had happened to the little tailoress had made him nervous; and when, at length, he caught sight of the light in her window, he grasped Mr.
The sleeves were from two to three inches too short, and it was so far from meeting in front, on account of his being much broader than Oscar, that his shoulders seemed drawn back to meet each other behind. "It doesn't exactly fit," said the major; "but it can be let out easily. I will send it to Miss Pearce the village tailoress to fix it over for you."
To-night they still amused him, but in a gentler and more friendly way. "And so, according to your own account, you will protect your tailoress and unmake your country. I am sorry for your dilemma," he said, laughing. "Ah! well," she shrugged her shoulders with a sigh, "don't let's talk of it. It's all too pressing and sore and hot. And to think of the weeks that are just coming on!"
"Well, what is there so strange about my marrying Jim Fenton?" and the little tailoress straightened in her chair, her eyes flashing, and the color mounting to her face. "Oh, nothing; but you know it's such a surprise he's so he's so well he's a not cultivated never has seen much society, you know; and lives almost out of the world, as it were." "Oh, no! He isn't cultivated!
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