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Updated: June 7, 2025
"It seems to me that if I were madame I'd take for precaution's sake a few winter dresses, a few evening-dresses " "Evening-dresses! Why, what are you thinking of? I shall go nowhere, Hermance, alone in England, without my husband, who stays in Paris in the National Guard." "But if madame should go to see their Majesties in England?" "Yes, of course I shall, Hermance."
"Well, it's because I know madame's feelings and views that " "You are right; put in some evening-dresses." "Will madame take her last white satin dress?" "Oh no, not that one; it would be too sad a memory for the Empress, who noticed it at the last ball at the Tuileries. And then the dress wouldn't stand the voyage. My poor white satin dress! Shall I ever wear it again?"
I shall want their evening-dresses, without fail, by the beginning of next week." They all went down into the street. Sylvia found herself casting shy glances at Betty. It seemed to her that her sister was changed that she scarcely knew her. Dress did not make such a marked difference in Hetty's appearance; but Hetty too looked a different girl.
"Why, yes " Ruth began, but her aunt finished for her: "Now, Carter, it's too warm to be proposing anything more. You aren't well, and Ruth ought to stay at home and put cold cream on her face. It is getting so burned that her pink evening-dresses will be worse than useless. Besides, there is absolutely nothing to do in this stupid place. I feel as if I couldn't stand it all summer."
Clara Durrant had left him at a party to talk to an American called Pilchard. And he had come all the way to Greece and left her. They wore evening-dresses, and talked nonsense what damned nonsense and he put out his hand for the Globe Trotter, an international magazine which is supplied free of charge to the proprietors of hotels.
It seemed the only thing to do, as he wants us to entertain his friends, and go out whenever we are asked, and we hadn't enough clothes to go in. Ruth wouldn't ask, so I had to do it. We have no evening-dresses in the world except those black things that you see every night, and we can't live in them for three months like a man in his dress suit." "They are very pretty dresses.
Her evening-dresses, though plain and inexpensive, were always dainty and fresh, but she wore her habit as long as it would hold together, and cared nothing for the fact that her hat was stained by the rain: they were her "working clothes," and strictly considered as such.
At least we can display original etchings on our trunks when we get them back home," remarked Eleanor, with a gleam of amusement at the affair. "Everything will simply be ruined! Just see that trunk holding my evening-dresses right by that horse-trough. Do make those awful creatures go away, won't you, Nolla?" begged Barbara. "With those nasty guns sticking from their belts not me!
"It's lucky we have evening-dresses," remarked Barbara. "Do folks dress up at these parties?" asked Eleanor. "I should say we do!" declared Polly. Mrs. Brewster and Anne were talking in low tones and did not hear the question and answer, so they did not explain what Polly meant by "dressing up." The days intervening between the Tuesday and the Friday set down for the hop passed quickly.
Are these the things to interest any manly man who is free to act for himself? Hardly. But our "company" refers to the meeting of human souls and hearts, and not to the meeting of a fortuitous concourse of male and female evening-dresses. I have now before me a very brilliant published account of a reception at George Eliot's house. Those assemblies were company, and company of the finest kind.
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