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Updated: June 6, 2025
You'd better stick to the subject of cooking and baby-clothes, for you will soon be married. As for your father, pray let him attend to his own business. It is unseemly for a girl to meddle in her father's affairs."
But these were none of your simple Susans, that think their eyes are good for nothing but to look at their husbands, or their fingers but to sew baby-clothes. Depend on it, you must give up your matrimony, or your views of preferment.
Those fellows who were born with fifty or sixty thousand francs' income in their baby-clothes are all alike." The unpleasant intention was evident; but M. Costeclar was not the man to get angry for such a trifle. "You are in bad humor to-day, old fellow," he said. The editor of "The Financial Pilot" made a threatening gesture.
That was the only swearing guerrilla we met; the others seemed to have too much respect for us to talk loud. Lucy had met us before this; early in the action, Lilly had sent her back to get some baby-clothes, but a shell exploding within a few feet of her, she took alarm, and ran up another road, for three miles, when she cut across the plantations and regained the Greenwell route.
Warble reveled in infant layettes and her own layouts for lying in. She sank deeper and deeper in a sea of baby-clothes, down pillows and orris powder. Nursery quarters were added to the house, influenced by Lucca Delia Robbia and Fra Angelico. Also a few influential Madonnas. The Butterflies came in with advice.
She had morning-sickness of a violent nature and her abdomen enlarged. On consultation with the ladies of her court, her opinion of pregnancy was strongly confirmed. Her favorite amusement then was to make baby-clothes and count on her fingers the months of pregnancy.
Everything was perfectly satisfactory. The ladies were putting the finishing touches to their baby-clothes and were getting on together splendidly.
And the baby-clothes! and the cradle! and the toys! colored rubber balls and soldiers the first or second or third week! "What about that stern discipline that was to be put in force here no rocking, no getting up at night to coddle a weeping infant?" "Yes, I know. That's all good stuff before you get one. I've got one of my own now, and I've got a new light on this. Say, Dreiser, take my advice.
"Oh, they're getting quite common!" laughed Elizabeth. "See how nice and warm the water is! Shall we bathe the baby?" And presently the child lay warm and swaddled in its mother's arms, dressed in some baby-clothes produced by Elizabeth from a kind of travellers' cupboard at the top of the stairs.
She kept three hundred for her baby-clothes and the expenses of her illness, and joyfully presented the sum due to Lousteau, who was ploughing, furrow by furrow, or, if you will, line by line, through a novel for a periodical. "Dearest heart," said she, "finish your novel without making any sacrifice to necessity; polish the style, work up the subject.
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