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"Ah!" cried I, taking hold of Lady Babbleton's shawl, "what a pretty Manchester pattern this is." "Manchester pattern!" exclaimed the petrified peeress; "why it is real cachemere: you don't think I wear any thing English, Mr. Pelham?" "I beg your ladyship ten thousand pardons.
This time she rose decidedly, and, putting aside the little ecarte table which was in her way, pressed forward to the drawer, saying something about "counters." Her Cachemere caught on Helen's harp, and, in her eager spring forward, it would have been overset, but that the general felt, turned, and caught it. "What are you about, my dear Cecilia? what do you want?"
Hopkins already stretching out an arm with the cachemere, which he had caught almost as soon as it touched the water, and now offered to its fair owner, with the good-natured hope that it had not been injured, as it was hardly wet. The lady received it very graciously, and bestowed a very sweet smile on the old merchant; while Mr.
Pierre, the results of his own experience: "Misfortune resembles the Black Mountain of Bember, situated at the extremity of the burning kingdom of Lahore; while you are climbing it, you only see before you barren rocks; but when you have reached its summit, you see heaven above your head, and at your feet the kingdom of Cachemere."
Voyage de Francois Bernier, contenant la Description des Etats du Grand Mogul. Amsterd. 1725. 2 Vols. 12mo. This author was also a medical man, and from that circumstance obtained favour from the Mogul, and an opportunity of visiting parts of Asia, at that time little known, particularly Cachemere, of which he gives a full and interesting description.
"Ah!" cried I, taking hold of Lady Babbleton's shawl, "what a pretty Manchester pattern this is." "Manchester pattern!" exclaimed the petrified peeress; "why it is real cachemere: you don't think I wear any thing English, Mr. Pelham?" "I beg your ladyship ten thousand pardons.
"My dear Aunt," cried Elinor, "do look at this; Jane, I think we must call it a sac 'bag' sounds too heavy. Look at the material the finest cachemere. And then the colour, so rich and so delicate at the same time." "Yes; it is a very pretty shade of ponceau," said Jane. "And then the shape! so Parisian! And the ornaments " "It is very pretty," said Miss Wyllys, after due examination.
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