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Updated: June 1, 2025


One of them swell silk smarties got at me when I was in the hospital with the fever. She was a bird she was. She handed me a line of grand talk, and I, being sort of weak with sickness, took it in. Well, when she got right down to business, what did she want me to do? Be a dressmaker or a lady's maid.

Even certain forms of Colonial mahogany were art, although he was not fond of them. And Natalie was art. Even if she represented the creative instincts of her dressmaker and her milliner, and not her own he did not like a Louis XV sofa the less that it had not carved itself. Possibly Natalie appealed then to his collective instinct, he had not analyzed it.

His sister was at work with a dressmaker, but as yet earning next to nothing. His mother was a lady, he said, and had never done any work. He was himself in a counting-house in the City, with a salary of forty pounds. He told him where they lived, and Richard promised to go and see him, which he did the next Sunday.

With thoughtfulness beyond her years Evelyn presently drew her mother aside, out of earshot of the dressmaker, and whispered, "Mamma dear, don't put too much expense on me; you know there is no one to earn money for us now." "No, but he cannot have left us poor," rejoined the mother; "for I know his business has paid very well indeed for years past.

The art of sewing, so far as men learn it, is well enough; that is, to enable a person to take the stitches, and, if necessary, to make her own garments in a strong manner; but the dressmaker should no more be a universal character than the carpenter. Suppose every man should feel it is his duty to do his own mechanical work of all kinds, would society be benefited? would the work be well done?

One of the vital principles of our police will consist in always following your wife to the furnishers of your house, if she is accustomed to visit them. You will carefully find out whether there is any intimacy between her and her draper, her dressmaker or her milliner, etc. In this case you will apply the rules of the conjugal Custom House, and draw your own conclusions.

She could bear transplanting from most of them with equanimity, no matter how deep her roots had seemed to strike. After she had posted her letters there was a question of what to do next. She had really come out for a walk, but Mary Beck's mother had a dressmaker that day and Becky was not at liberty; and Nelly Foster was busy, too.

The dressmaker was a buxom person, handsomely dressed and rather good-looking, but much older than the gentleman in the Turkish trousers, whom she had wedded some six months before. His name was originally Muntle; but it had been converted, by an easy transition, into Mantalini: the lady rightly considering that an English appellation would be of serious injury to the business.

'And I take it for granted, pursued Fledgeby, 'that to get the most of your materials for nothing would be well worth your while, Miss Jenny? 'You may take it for granted, returned the dressmaker with many knowing nods, 'that it's always well worth my while to make money. 'Now, said Fledgeby approvingly, 'you're answering to a sensible purpose. Now, you're coming out and looking alive!

Hiding herself in the entry outside the glass door, she could see from that post of observation the old man in his spectacles sitting writing at his desk. 'Boh! cried the dressmaker, popping in her head at the glass-door. 'Mr Wolf at home? The old man took his glasses off, and mildly laid them down beside him. 'Ah Jenny, is it you? I thought you had given me up.

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