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'Then where did she get her manners and education? Do you know? 'I do not, my lord. I suppose she picked 'em up by her wits. 'Never mind what you suppose, said the old man impatiently. 'Whenever I ask a question of you tell me what you know, and no more. 'Quite so, my lord. I beg your lordship's pardon for supposing. 'H'm-h'm. Have the fashion-books and plates arrived yet?
Annie had hunted up some fashion-books, and had consulted Nora about the shape and the cut of the sleeves, and the way the skirt was to be hung and the embroidery sewn on. Both girls had been animated over the discussion, and Nora had been too interested to feel fatigue. Well, that happened a few hours ago; now Annie, on her knees, bent over her empty trunk with an expression of keen dismay.
The latter stood at the table with a puzzled frown on her brow, and a large pair of scissors in her hand; before her were spread paper patterns, fashion-books, and some pieces of black velveteen, which she was eyeing doubtfully, and, placing in different ways so that it might be cut to the best advantage. Bella was considered a fine young woman.
"Papa, how can you talk so?" said Janey, indignant, "when you know very well it is not the cold that keeps Ursula in, but because she has so much to do." "Oh, yes, one knows the sort of things young ladies have to do," said Clarence, with a laugh; "read stories, and look up pretty dresses for their parties, eh, Miss Janey? and consult the fashion-books.
She knew, as she said, 'what people looked well in. She never tired of poring over fashion-books. Sometimes in the evening I would find her alone in her work-room, draping folds of satin on a wire figure, with a quite blissful expression of countenance.
Minnie and Chatty were fond of making expeditions into the shop, as has been said. They liked to have a talk with Lizzie, and to turn over her fashion-books, old and new, and perhaps to plan, next time they had new frocks, how the sleeves should be made. It was a pleasant "object" for their walk, a break in the monotony, and gave them something to talk about.
Dunn thought it was a just reward for her kindness that she had this increase of custom. One day, about four months after she had been engaged in this business, Miss Rennie and Miss Wilson came in with most important-looking faces. While Miss Wilson was busied turning over the fashion-books, her friend whispered to Elsie: "It is really a case; Laura is engaged to Mr.
I thought I should feel at home the moment I saw you but I don't, not a bit. You look so grown-up and proper, and your dress is so grand, and you have done your hair like the people in the fashion-books, and I never can make out how on earth they twist it in and out... We are the same age, but you seem ever so much older, and I don't feel that it is you at all."
Many scores of marvellously-finished little Flemish pictures, and also of sketches, excellent for fashion-books displaying varied costumes in the handsomest materials, gave evidence of laudable industry whimsically applied. And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.
Miss Barker provided me with some literature in the shape of three or four handsomely-bound fashion-books ten or twelve years old, observing, as she put a little table and a candle for my especial benefit, that she knew young people liked to look at pictures. Carlo lay and snorted, and started at his mistress's feet. He, too, was quite at home.
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