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Updated: June 19, 2025
My headdress differed from hers in the ends of my feathers being blue, and in the rose being white, surrounded by pale blue violets and a few silver leaves. And now a temptation came to all of us. Alix spoke first: "Now put on your ball-dresses and I will send for our friends. What do you think?" "Oh, that would be charming!" cried Suzanne. "Let us hurry!"
Furthermore, it gives you a chance to describe the hat, and so make up for a few of the words you lost when she refused to discuss ball-dresses with Mrs. Willard." "I never thought of that; but don't you think I worked up to the proposal skilfully?" asked Harley. "Very," said I. "But you're dreadfully hard on Parker. It would have been better to have had the butler fire him out, head over heels.
"But that won't be yet a while," he continued; "first Max and Gottfried must have permanent places, and Greta and Katie must have the ball-dresses they wish for, and mother's arm-chair must be newly done up " and the more he thought the more other things came to his mind which had a prior claim.
The azaleas knew they would go, because they were in their pink or rose ball-dresses all ready; but no one else was sure. The rose tree grew quite sick and faint with hope and fear. Unless she went, she felt that life was not worth the living. She had no idea what a ball might be, but she knew that it was another form of greatness, when she was all ready, too, and so beautiful!
The fashionable lady had certainly not reasoned out that if there were no capitalists and no army to defend them, her husband would have no fortune, and she could not have her entertainments and her ball-dresses. And the artist certainly does not argue that he needs the capitalists and the troops to defend them, so that they may buy his pictures.
"But how is it possible to make two ball-dresses between this time and night after next?" inquired the countess, evidently not at all averse to the project, if it could be carried into execution. "I answer for the possibility!" replied Madeleine. "Yes, Madeleine answers for it!" repeated Maurice.
Oh, my reader! may you never behold such a sight as that which presented itself: eighty-three men and women in ball-dresses; the former with their lank powdered locks streaming over their faces; the latter with faded flowers, uncurled wigs, smudged rouge, blear eyes, draggling feathers, rumpled satins each more desperately melancholy and hideous than the other each, except my beloved Belinda Bulcher, whose raven ringlets never having been in curl, could of course never go OUT of curl; whose cheek, pale as the lily, could, as it may naturally be supposed, grow no paler; whose neck and beauteous arms, dazzling as alabaster, needed no pearl-powder, and therefore, as I need not state, did not suffer because the pearl-powder had come off.
French rabble! The Emperor did well to declare war against such people. My husband dined yesterday with Guy; you know, the tall Guy, who is an aide of Leboeuf. Well, we are ready, admirably ready, and the Prussians not at all. You are showing me ball-dresses. I don't quite know why, but I tell it to you as I heard it. But there are thirteen. I never could have thirteen. Whereupon she departed.
"All your Aunt Alicia's ball-dresses and your Uncle Maxwell's wedding clothes," guessed Josephine. "A mahogany sideboard, dining-table and chairs," murmured Sally, at which there was a general shout. "Dead beetles, fallen plaster, and a musty copy of 'Plutarch's Lives," was Max's cynical contribution. "Open the door!" cried Bob. But Jarvis still held it.
This is the second time you have been in the place since it was finished, faithless friend!" "My dear fellow, you know it is not my fault. I have been very busy lately trying to get on with my accounts. There's not a room in the Manor House where I can work in; my sisters' things are everywhere, and they must not be interfered with their ball-dresses, their birds, their work.
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