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He got a peculiar effect of desolation from the mattresses pulled down over the foot of the bedsteads, and the dismantled interiors reflected in the mirrors of the dressing-cases; and he was going to speak of it when he rejoined Cynthia at the stairway leading to the third story, when she said, "Those were Mrs. Vostrand's rooms I came out of the last."
One shop had such a display of magnificent dressing-cases that I should have thought a whole royal family was setting out on its travels. I see the cost of one of them is two hundred and seventy guineas. Thirteen hundred and fifty dollars seems a good deal to pay for a dressing-case. On the other hand, some of the first-class tradesmen and workmen make no show whatever.
One fault which you must contract, and which you must never correct, will consist in a sort of heedless curiosity, which will make you examine unceasingly all the boxes, and turn upside down the contents of all dressing-cases and work-baskets.
The above articles can all be bought at the Army and Navy Stores. A light canvas box, fitted as a dressing-case. Ours were made, according to our own wishes and possessions, by Williams, of 41 Bond Street. The innumerable glass bottles, so highly prized by the makers of dressing-cases, should be strictly limited in number. A set of aluminium cooking-utensils is much to be recommended.
"This is all very well for the wallflowers," said Captain Winstanley to Violet, "but you and I are losing our dances." "I don't much care about dancing," answered Vixen wearily. She had been looking at this gorgeous display of bracelets and teacups, silver-gilt dressing-cases, and ivory hairbrushes, without seeing anything.
It is thus, thou great family of Sidonia it is thus that we Gentiles treat thee, when, in our most extreme need, thou and thine have aided us with mountains of gold as big as lions and occasionally with wine-warrants and orders for dozens of dressing-cases. 'What, and become an insolvent? said the doctor. 'He's that already, said Charlotte, wishing always to get over a difficulty.
She was too strong, and too much mistress of her will, to be cheated now out of her advantage. "Madam Gordeloup, that attitude is absurd; I beg you will get up." "Never; never till you have pardoned me." And Sophie crouched still lower, till she was all among the dressing-cases and little bags at the bottom of the carriage. "I will not get up till you say the words, 'Sophie, dear, I forgive you."
Dark handsome new carpets and curtains, an arrangement of some carefully selected antique ornaments in porcelain and bronze, new coverings, and mirrors, and dressing-cases, for the toilet tables, answered the end: they looked fresh without being glaring.
M'Ruen had once explained to Charley, while endeavouring to make his young customer take the other three as a good value for L7 10s. in arranging a little transaction, the total amount of which did not exceed L15. In that instance, however, Charley, who had already dabbled somewhat deeply in dressing-cases, utterly refused to trade in the articles produced.
Various knick-knacks, dressing-cases, writing-cases, clocks, etcetera, were regarded by him as contemptible lumber. Some silk socks he looked upon almost as a criminal possession. In the end we were reduced to a single box apiece, containing something like the following assortment, several items of which had to be purchased in Auckland.
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