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Updated: June 19, 2025
The prospect of such a life made her tremble; and she racked her brain to discover some way of freeing herself from her detested companion. Would it be possible to inspire Aunt Medea with a desire to live independently in her own house, served by her own servants? Might she succeed in persuading this silly old woman, who still longed for finery and ball-dresses, to marry?
"I've never dined out in London; and I don't want to be ridiculous." He tried to enter into her perplexity. "But don't Englishwomen dress just like everybody else in the evening?" "Newland! How can you ask such funny questions? When they go to the theatre in old ball-dresses and bare heads." "Well, perhaps they wear new ball-dresses at home; but at any rate Mrs. Carfry and Miss Harle won't.
I remember those two beautiful young women God rest their souls as if I saw them this moment, in the garden of our destroyed house, pale but active, assisting some of our poor neighbours, in their soiled ball-dresses and with the dust of fallen walls on their hair. As to my mother, she had a stoical soul in her frail body.
"Up-town" seemed to them largely given to entertainment and hilarity of an enviably prodigal sort. Mrs. Bowse's guests were not of the class which entertains or is entertained, and the details of banquets and ball-dresses and money-spending were not uncheering material for conversation.
They represented groups of plump provincial-looking young women in dowdy European ball-dresses; and it required an effort of the imagination to believe that the lovely creatures in velvet caftans, with delicately tattooed temples under complicated head-dresses, and hennaed feet crossed on muslin cushions, were the same as the beaming frumps in the photographs.
The first economize their life like misers; the second waste it like prodigals. Then night comes on, and the air grows cold. Those who take care of themselves go home, those who amuse themselves go out. The first put on dressing-gowns; the second put on ball-dresses.
"Dun no," was Tom's brief reply, for he was just escaping from an alligator of the largest size. "Do put down that stupid book, and let 's do something," said Fanny, after a listless stroll round the room. "Hi, they 've got him!" was the only answer vouchsafed by the absorbed reader. "Where 's Polly?" asked Maud, joining the party with her hands full of paper dolls all suffering for ball-dresses.
Halle so very much," he wrote home, "and am entirely glad to know so great a musician and evidently so good and wise a man. He was very happy yesterday evening, and actually sat down and played quadrilles for us to dance to which is, in its way, something like Titian sketching patterns for ball-dresses.
In this smaller room Miss Bruce kept her riding-habits, her ball-dresses, her draperies of different fabric, her transparencies of all kinds, and her jewels. The house was very silent so silent, that in the distant corridors were distinctly audible those faint and ghostly footfalls, which traverse all large houses after midnight.
The first economize their life like misers; the second waste it like prodigals. Then night comes on, and the air grows cold. Those who take care of themselves go home, those who amuse themselves go out. The first put on dressing-gowns; the second put on ball-dresses.
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