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My mother made many objections, saying that I was too young; but between you and me she could refuse nothing to ladies of such high station. She consented, therefore, and proceeded at once to order my costume at the dressmaker's. It was a mass of white silk and lace with intermingled pearls. For the occasion my mother lent me her pearls, which were of great magnificence.
The girl, clad according to her wont in a dark gown, this time of peacock-blue, was nervous, with wicked eyes and sibilant voice. And as she ragefully drew up her little figure, her deformity, her left shoulder higher than the right one, became more apparent than ever. "No," she rejoined, "she was unable. She had something to try on at her dressmaker's.
What he did not tell them was, that a dressmaker's little errand-girl, with whom he had tried to converse as he left the law-school, had surveyed him from head to foot and threatened him with the police.
In the rough, she supposed that a thousand pounds would settle her debt for the year they had spent in Paris. Since then she had, however, insisted on keeping herself, but now that she came to think it out, it did not seem that she had done much more than pay her dressmaker's bills.
"Women should be economical." This poor god was still suffering from the dressmaker's bill. "My dear, give me curtains at twelve pesos a yard, and you'll see if I put on these rags!" retorted the goddess in pique. "Heavens! You can talk when you have done something fine like that to give you the right!"
Many flaunting dolls had to be gaily dressed, before the money was in the dressmaker's pocket to get mourning for Mr Dolls. As the old man, Riah, sat by, helping her in such small ways as he could, he found it difficult to make out whether she really did realize that the deceased had been her father. 'If my poor boy, she would say, 'had been brought up better, he might have done better.
Before going to the dressmaker's yesterday, I spent five minutes learning the Italian for the expression "This blouse bags; it sits in wrinkles between the shoulders." As this was the only criticism given in the little book, I imagined that Italian dressmakers erred in this special direction. What was my discomfiture to find that my blouse was much too small and refused to meet.
"You must go with me to the dressmaker's tomorrow, girls," said the Grand Duchess, effectually putting a stop to the discussion. "I shall be there all day trying on gowns, and I want your opinions." "Didn't you have anything made in Paris, Mother?" cried Toots and Beppy in unison. "She did," said Corky emphatically. "We paid duty on seventy-three gowns, to say nothing of other things."
"But God had His eye upon me, and in the midst of my happiness and the hurry of our final preparations His bolt fell. It struck me while I was at the don't laugh; rather shudder at the dressmaker's shop in Fourteenth Street.
"I could have saved you all that trouble," replied Raikes. "This is a false radiator, the real flue is on the other side of the room. "The rear of this small safe backs up against nearly two feet of solid brickwork. "Exactly behind that is a room occupied by one no more burglarious than a dressmaker's apprentice." "Thank you," replied Gratz.
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