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Updated: May 12, 2025
Anna had not intended to be rude or cruel when she first began her game of letting Luretta see that Melly and her possessions were of no importance, but Melvina's ignorance of the common things about her, as well as her neatly braided hair, her white stockings and kid shoes, such as no other child in the village possessed, made Anna feel as if Melvina was not a real little girl, but a dressed-up figure.
"Ah, this generation," said the farmer, "this generation is a mass of spoilt and pampered dolls" he was thinking of his daughter "they only think about running here and there; paying visits to friends, taking tea with cousins, or walks with dressed-up mashers.
All the great uses of a noble life brought down to petty observances and childish mummeries, prayers and genuflections before waxen relics and dressed-up madonnas. Oh, my dearest girl, next worst only to the dominion of sin is the slavery of a false religion. I would have thee free as air free and enlightened released from the trammels of Rome, happy in thyself and useful to thy fellow-creatures."
Homer and Marie greeted her warmly, and Beatrice and Kit were not much surprised to see her, because she was liable to come any day. Beatrice looked a little surprised at Patty's dressed-up appearance, but as no one else appeared, she had no suspicion of what Patty had done. They all sat in the drawing-room, and the clock ticked away until twenty-five minutes of two, but nobody else arrived. Mrs.
But I thought, of course, it was a cannibal suburb, and I was wondering whether I was to be served with carrots or mushrooms. And, as I say, this dressed-up man sits beside me, and we become friends in the space of a minute or two. For an hour we talked, and he told me all about it.
"Can't ye tell me something that's good for the sunburn?" asked Sandy, anxiously. "It's a dressed-up shooting-cracker I'll be resembling the morrow, in spite of me fine clothes." "Buttermilk and lemon-juice," recommended Mrs. Hollis, as she placed the last marshmallow on the roof of a four-story cake.
I dared not disclose my sentiments to any person about me, nor did any one presume to enter into any freedom of conversation with me; but all who spoke to me talked to the queen, and not to me; for they would have said just the same things to a dressed-up puppet, if the king had taken a fancy to call it his wife.
Now we meet a larger party of dressed-up folks going to church. It is holy day for Saint Nicholas. The long hill leading into Liablskaya is a good tester for courage. Some of the men are playing out eight versts more will be tough marching. Here is the billeting officer to tell us that the eight versts is a mistake it is nineteen instead. We must halt for the night. No one is sorry.
"I saw him once when he brought two ladies round the works dressed-up creatures they were, too! One of them spoke to me. I nearly told her to mind her own business and not try the district visitor stunt on me." Faith caught her breath. "You wouldn't dare!" she said aghast. Peg laughed. "Wouldn't I! I'm not afraid of anybody or anything."
The yellow uniformed coachman, who had an extraordinary likeness to a dressed-up monkey, clicked his tongue, and away they went through spacious grounds to the palace, whose white marble walls soon gleamed through the foliage of the palms and tamarinds.
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