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Updated: July 13, 2025
Had the French cousin with whom she rode stag-hunting ever seen her like this? No; Ashe felt certain that "Henri" had never seen her, except as a fashion-plate, or en amazone. He could have made nothing of this ghost in black this distinguished, piteous, little ghost. After luncheon it became tolerably clear to Ashe that Lady Grosville's preoccupation had a cause.
They can't rise, as this woman does, into the sexless region of affairs and of thought." Bradley lacked the courage to ask him to speak lower, and he went on. "She's had suitors enough and flattery enough to turn her into a simpering fashion-plate; but you can not spoil brains. What the women want is not votes; it's brains, and less morbid emotions." "She's a free woman?" said Bradley. "Free!
Miss Lear waited to rally a little and said only, "Complimentary in the extreme! Pray tell me the hour, I think my carriage must be here;" then the fashion-plate shook hands with us both and departed. I felt almost ashamed, and repeated verbatim to Louis our conversation; he laughed, and, patting my shoulder, said: "You spoke quite rightly, she was impertinent, pardon her ignorant vanity."
He was quite willing to help his father, whom he had now learned to call the "old man," but he was not willing to go back to him. Early in his second year at the Springs Marston came for a stay at the hotel. When he saw his protégé, he exclaimed: "Why, that isn't Si, is it?" "Yes, suh," smiled Silas. "Well, well, well, what a change. Why, boy, you've developed into a regular fashion-plate.
It was not exactly an ignorant valley, for the daily newspapers were there, and the monthly magazine, and the fashion-plate of Paris, and the illuminating sunshine of new science, and enough of the uneasy throb of modern life.
He believed also that people should, in society, conduct themselves according to the fashion-plate pattern designed by Mrs. de Laney. He believed these things, not because he was a fool, or shallow, or lacking in humour, or snobbish, but because nothing had ever happened to cause him to examine his beliefs closely, that he might appreciate what they really were.
Yet I have known a practitioner, perhaps more than one, who was as much under the dominant influence of the last article he had read in his favorite medical journal as a milliner under the sway of the last fashion-plate. The difference between green and seasoned knowledge is very great, and such practitioners never hold long enough to any of their knowledge to have it get seasoned.
There was a great splash, and a tall young woman was perceived to be in the baptismal pool, her arms waving above her head, and her figure held upright in the water by the inflation of the air underneath her crinoline which was blown out like a bladder, as in some extravagant old fashion-plate. Whether her feet touched the bottom of the font I cannot say, but I suppose they did so.
Never had they promenaded so proudly to martial music or waltzed so perspiringly with the fashion-plate officers whom they adored. The children were paragons of diligence and promise. In their school books and college text books everything German was lauded in the superlative; everything foreign was decried as inferior, undesirable.
'Then it must have been that you could not bear the monotony of your life. Her answer was a short, careless laugh. 'Where is this shop? What do you do? 'It's a dress-supply association. I advise fools about the fashions, and exhibit myself as a walking fashion-plate. I can't see how it should interest you. 'Whatever concerns you, Nancy, interests me more than anything else in the world.
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