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In reality, he was going to see one of his Conservatoire friends, a large, lanky dowdy, as swarthy as a mole and full of pretensions, who was destined for the tragic line of character, and inflicted upon her lover Athalie's dream, Camille's imprecations, and Phedre's monologue.
Her mother, a dingy old dowager, with bad teeth, dowdy gowns, a profusion of artificial flowers, and a strong addiction to tea and knitting, perfectly understood the duties of duennaship, and did propriety by her daughter's side at dinner-table and promenade. To the heart of the daughter, Van Haubitz, almost from the first hour he had seen her, had laid persevering and determined siege.
In dress the Melbourne ladies are too fond of bright colours, but it can never be complained against them that they are dowdy a fault common to their Sydney, Adelaide, and English sisters and they certainly spend a great deal of money on their dress, every article of which costs about 50 per cent. more than at home.
Some of them were dressed fashionably, and they said they couldn't for the life of them see why you should be dowdy just because you had written a novel; if you had a neat figure you might as well make the most of it, and a smart shoe on a small foot had never prevented an editor from taking your "stuff." But others thought this frivolous, and they wore "art fabrics" and barbaric jewelry.
You began it," said Daisy, stifling a pang of compunction, for she really liked him very much, else why should she mind what he wore? "I began it?" "Yes. By by dragging in Mr. Derosne." "I only mentioned him as an example of fashionable youth." "You know you wouldn't like it if I went about in dowdy old things." "I don't mind a bit what you wear. It's all the same to me."
"But the gentleman said he would show his gratitude" "He should have showed his tin fust. There ain't no use of denying it, Snipe; this is a wery low establishment, and I shall cut it as soon as I can. What right has a dowdy like our Sophia to be getting billydoos from fellers as ought to be ashamed of theirselves for getting off their three-legged stools at this time of the day?
I thought she must be some one awful to meet I was that scared and instead, she's like any one, and real chummy besides; and, actually, ma, don't you think her dress was dowdy all except the diamonds? I suppose that comes from living in England so much. And hasn't Mrs. Milbrey twice as grand a manner, and the son he's a precious he knows everything and everybody; I shall like him."
Did I say her employer was the angriest woman in the world? I was mistaken. The angriest woman in the world was Felicia Day. Tiny in stature, absurdly dowdy she stood. She didn't raise her voice after that first cry but its deep contralto seemed to penetrate everywhere.
They included delightful people, absurd people, average people; people who were smart and people who were dowdy, some who were respectable and nothing else, some who were deplorable, others beautiful, and many merely dull.
A cold-blooded creature, with no pin-money, might reconcile it with her principles, if any she had, to stand up like a dowdy and allow a poor man to risk his life by shot and storm and starvation, and then to deny him a word or a look, because of his coming with the genuine thing at a quarter the price fat tradesmen asked, who never stirred out of their shops when it rained, for a thing that was a story and an imposition.
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