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Through this atmosphere of torrid splendour moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity from restaurant to concert-hall, from palm-garden to music-room, from "art exhibit" to dress-maker's opening.
But the dress-maker's next remark almost dispelled the pathos. "I want you to tell me right out," said she, "if it would make any difference if I paid you. Of course I know you've given up law, an' I 'ain't thought of offerin' you pay for advice. I've traded all I can in your store, though I always think you are a little dearer, and I didn't know but you'd think that made it all right; but "
Austen, I must go now." I looked at the clock. It was almost two o'clock. "We couldn't have lunch together, I suppose?" I asked. She shook her head, laughing. "I had lunch more than an hour ago," she said, "and I have to meet madame at a dress-maker's. I must go, really, Austen." "Can't I see you again, dear?" "I will come into this room, if I can, about five," she said.
As the three women seated themselves at the supper-table, embellished by the unwonted addition of pound cake and sweet pickles, the dress-maker's sharp swarthy person stood out vividly between the neutral-tinted sisters. Miss Mellins was a small woman with a glossy yellow face and a frizz of black hair bristling with imitation tortoise-shell pins.
"He'll be here in a minute." "But I can't wait. Mrs. Ford is down at the dress-maker's now. It'll be too late if I wait. What am I to do? It will spoil the whole thing if Mrs. Ford insists " Dr. O'Grady came in. He was whistling cheerfully, not "Rule, Britannia," but a harmless Irish jig. "Hullo!" he said. "You here, Major. Good. And Father McCormack. There's nothing like punctuality. And Mrs.
Ida had obtained a very handsome mourning wardrobe for both herself and Evelyn, and had superintended Maria's. Maria paid for her clothes out of her small earnings, however. Ida had her dress-maker's bill made out separately, and gave it to her. Maria calculated that she would have just about enough to pay her fare back to Amity without touching that sacred blood-money in the savings-bank.
Ramy, when consulted, had not only confirmed the dress-maker's report, but had offered to find some safe investment which should give the sisters a higher rate of interest than the suspected savings bank; and Ann Eliza knew that Evelina alluded to the suggested transfer. "Why, yes, to be sure," she agreed. "Mr.
The historical scandal began when Herbert wanted to marry Alice Oulsnam, an orphan like himself, employed at a dress-maker's in Crown Square, Hanbridge. "Thou'lt marry her if thou'st a mind," said Si to Herbert, "but I s'll ne'er speak to thee again." "But why, uncle?" "That's why," said Si.
'I shall not have a creature to speak to at home, and I never go anywhere, said Blanche, despairingly. Both statements were obvious untruths, but no doubt the damsel herself believed them. 'Have you a gown that covers your knees? asked Aunt Betsy, severely. 'My new frock is awfully long. It only came from the dress-maker's last week.
After the bills were paid and business was done, there was pleasure to follow, for there was a fitting-on at the dress-maker's, the fitting-on of a tea-gown, to be worn at winter-evening bridge-parties, which, unless Miss Mapp was sadly mistaken, would astound and agonize by its magnificence all who set eyes on it. She had found the description of it, as worn by Mrs.
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