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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Thoo ha' made a covenant wi' the Amorite an the Amalekite. They ha' called tha, an thoo art eatin o' their sacrifices!" There was an uneasy laugh from the door, and Laura, turning her astonished eyes in that direction, perceived Hubert standing in the doorway, and behind him another head thrust eagerly forward the head of a young woman in a much betrimmed Sunday hat.
"And the wage?" asked a laborer. "You see what the wage brings," he answered. "I eat of the best, and I drink deep. I treat my friend, and I ask no friend to treat me. I clap a silk gown on my girl's back. Never a knight's lady shall be better betrimmed and betrinketed. How of all that, mon garcon? And how of the heap of trifles that you can see for yourselves in yonder corner?
A beautiful, fine albatross cloth in itself appropriate, but betrimmed with pipings of satin and lace. "Why it looks like a wedding gown. You'll have to save it for there will be no occasion to wear it here. Not even graduation and the lawn fete, for then we all wear simple white muslin. That is Mrs. Barrington's law." "Oh, dear, and it is so beautiful!" on a half cry.
Furttenbach gives a picture of the two boatswains in grimly humorous verse: how they stand, Beclad, belaced, betrimmed, with many knots bespick; Embroidered, padded, tied; all feathers and all flap; Curly and queued, equipped, curious of hood and cap: and how they "ever stolidly smite" the crew with the bastinado,
She was dressed in a faded tea-gown much betrimmed, covered up with a dingy white shawl. "Well, Gertrude so you've come at last!" she said, after a moment, in a tone of resentment. "If you can put me up for the night I can stay. I've brought no luggage." "That doesn't matter. There's a stretcher bed. Come in." Gertrude Marvell entered, and her mother closed the door. "Well, mother how are you?"
At the top of this, surmounted by a gilt eagle, was a marvelous picture of a man with a blue coat and yellow smallclothes handing into a boat a lady who wore a skirt of purple and an overdress of scarlet, very much betrimmed, holding a green parasol over her head with one hand and placing a slippered foot on the edge of the boat.
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