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She played the piano-forte with great skill, and, with no special knowledge of drawing, possessed marked talent in sketching caricatures, portraits, and scenes from nature. She composed both the music and words of songs and romances with a felicitous ease. She excelled in feminine works, such as embroidery, tapestry, and dressmaking, and always modeled her own costumes.
As for yours, you look more like Othello than Orlando. 'Come, come, girls, said industrious Margery, 'let us go to the tent and sew. It is nothing but nonsense here, and we are not accomplishing anything. So they wisely left the boys to themselves for the entire day, and transformed their tent into a mammoth dressmaking establishment, with clever Aunt Truth as chief designer.
Miss A. Milligan stood before the door of her select dressmaking parlours, meditatively picking her teeth with a needle. We hasten to observe that her teeth were quite clean and that this was merely a harmless habit denoting intense mental concentration.
I go wherever Ogden goes. I am responsible for him. And I have failed. If Ogden is not brought back, Mr Ford will have nothing more to do with me. He never forgives failures. It will mean going back to the old work again the dressmaking, or the waiting, or whatever I can manage to find. She gave a little shiver. 'Peter, I can't. All the pluck has gone out of me. I'm afraid.
Aunt Jane, who was busy cooking, it seemed that Aunt Jane was always busy cooking something or other, when she wasn't dressmaking or mending clothing or ironing, greeted them warmly. Frank was working down at the lower end. Dorry had gone to San Andreas. She would be back 'most any time, now. And weren't they hungry? They were. And there was fresh milk and pie. But they put up the horses first.
"Outside of his Latin and physics he doesn't seem to have a single idea." "Doesn't he?" scoffed Bobby. "The boys say he's gone into the dressmaking business, or something." "What is that?" asked Dora, smiling. "What do they mean?" "Why, the professor's niece is living with him now. He is not much used to having a woman in his sitting-room, I guess.
Not to be equipped with this skill in dressmaking and in buying makes the girl largely dependent on others as far as her clothing and appearance are concerned, and in this way she may be placed at a disadvantage both in her work and in her life at home. For the same reason every girl should learn something about the making of hats and of the materials used in millinery.
For she really knew nothing of life except dressmaking; she was familiar with no part of it except the way to Dinard's. She had been living a little life, with little standards, little creeds, little compromises. And yet, though the personality of O'Hara had enlarged her vision of the world, it had not altered her superficial view of the man.
Melinda Jones was there all the time, while Mrs. Jones was back and forth, and a few of the Olney ladies dropped in with suggestions and offers of assistance. It was to be a grand affair so far, at least, as numbers were concerned for everybody was invited, from Mr. Townsend and the other clergy, down to Cecy Doane, who did dressmaking and tailoring from house to house.
But this particular store had, quite naturally, no facilities for doing a carriage business, a fact which the doorman laconically explained. "All right," said Rose dumping her heavy bundle beside the dressmaking form. "You won't mind keeping an eye on this for a minute, will you?"
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