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Updated: September 10, 2025
At one o'clock the factory hands are dismissed, and the masters proceed to dinner on horseback and in all sorts of vehicles at a thundering pace. The working-class population will be found less unhealthy and better looking than would be expected. The costume of the women, a cap and a short sleeved jacket fitting the waist, called a Lancashire bedgown, is decidedly picturesque.
And why was she not sent to weed in the garden or put at other unpleasant work? Rachel heard the rap on the tin cup that answered the purpose of a bell to summon one. Aunt Lois was still in her short bedgown and nightcap. "Thou must wait upon thy uncle this morning," she began feebly. "I have tried, but I cannot get about.
Now began a bad time for the poor step-child. "Is the stupid goose to sit in the parlour with us?" said they. "He who wants to eat bread must earn it; out with the kitchen-wench." They took her pretty clothes away from her, put an old grey bedgown on her, and gave her wooden shoes. "Just look at the proud princess, how decked out she is!" they cried, and laughed, and led her into the kitchen.
Now to the thing that is to do. Thou'lt have guessed it." To Sir Richard it was an easy guess, considering how much already he had been about this business. He signified as much. My lord shifted in his elbow-chair, and drew his embroidered bedgown of yellow satin closer about his shapely limbs. "Hast failed me twice before, Richard," said he.
The lawyer's obsequiousness only ended at Harry's bedroom door, where, with haughty grandeur, the young gentleman bade his talkative host good night. The next morning Mr. Warrington, arrayed in his brocade bedgown, took his breakfast, read the newspaper, and enjoyed his ease in his inn. He read in the paper news from his own country.
"And I told our young friend that I thought he had better have been on his way to church than there in his bedgown." "You wouldn't have Harry go to church in a dressing-gown and nightcap, Colonel Wolfe? That would be a pretty sight, indeed!" again says Hetty, fiercely. "I would have my little girl's tongue not wag quite so fast," remarks papa, patting the girl's flushed little cheek.
"Miss Hester, I found the parson in his cassock, and Henry Esmond Warrington, Esquire, in his bedgown, at a quarter before eleven o'clock in the morning, when all the Sunday bells were ringing, and they were playing over a game of piquet they had had the night before!" "Well, numbers of good people play at cards of a Sunday. The King plays at cards of a Sunday." "Hush, my dear!"
But a troop of horse came secretly over the hill; and seeing the place lie so solitary and deserted, and being in haste, they came not in, but one of them shot a bolt at a venture; but the knight, it seemed, must have stolen from his bed, and have been peeping through the shutters; for the knight's lady who sate below in sore shame and grief for her husband's cowardice, heard a cry, and coming up found him in his bedgown lying by the window, and a bolt sticking in his brain.
She had a clean buff kerchief round her neck, and stuffed into the bosom of her Sunday woollen gown of dark blue, if she had been in working-trim she would have worn a bedgown like Sylvia's. Her sleeves were pinned back at the elbows, and her brown arms and hard-working hands lay crossed in unwonted idleness on her check apron.
Nothing moved in the house, or the room the only sound was the rustling of a mouse in one corner. A door opened on a sudden. There was a step in the passage, and someone knocked at her door. "Come in." On the threshold stood Mrs. Mason in a cotton bedgown and petticoat, her grey locks in confusion about her massive face and piercing eyes. She closed the door, and came to the bedside. "Laura!
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