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Updated: July 29, 2025
The house looked something like Mrs. Noxon at her best. Just now she was at her worst. She stood by her marble pool and glared at her mob of guests dispersing in knots of laughter and indifference. There were hundreds of men and women of all ages and sizes, and almost all of them were startling the summer of 1915 with the fashion-plates of 1916. Mrs.
She is used to being left alone. She once lived like this for eighteen months. As a girl she built the usual castles in the air; but all her girlish hopes and aspirations have long been dead. She finds all the excitement and recreation she needs in the Young Ladies' Journal, and Heaven help her! takes a pleasure in the fashion-plates. Her husband is an Australian, and so is she.
The Major had brought in "Tom Jones" and "Peregrine Pickle;" various works by Mr. Of course the bookcase held a few school manuals and compendiums, and one of Mr. Webster's Dictionaries. But the gilt-edged Bible always lay on the centre-table, next to the magazine with the fashion-plates and the scrap-book with pictures from old annuals and illustrated papers.
He made a step forward to follow her, but stopped short, recalled to caution and his danger by the voice of the medicine-man: "I had a friend once good fellow, bad fellow, cleverest chap I ever knew. Tremendous fop ladies loved him cheeks like roses tongue like sulphuric acid. Beautiful to look at. Clothes like a fashion-plate got any fashion-plates in Chaudiere?
"Pardon me; I am afraid that colour would not suit you." Mrs. Bingham was a stout woman with a ruddy complexion. "One colour costs no more than another?" "No, madam: twelve guineas; that silk is expensive. Will you not take a seat?" "I am afraid you will find twelve guineas too much for anybody here. Have you nothing cheaper?" Mrs. Fairfax produced some patterns and fashion-plates.
And would she not despise herself for rejecting him simply because he was countrified, and because she longed to see the world of the fashion-plates in the magazines? "The logs are so like people!" she exclaimed, as they sat down. "I could name nearly every one of them for somebody in the village.
He had transplanted a vine from the woods and taught her to train it over the porch, and the first hint of tenderness he found in her nature was in the care of that plant. He had taken her a book full of pictures and fashion-plates, and he had noticed a quick and ingenious adoption of some of its hints in her dress.
What made things worse for me was her adoption of European clothes since coming to this place: I believe that, in her adroit way, she herself made some of her dresses, for one day I saw in her apartments a number of coloured fashion-plates, with a confusion like dress-making; or she may have been only modifying finished things from the shops, for her Western dressing is not quite like what I remember of the modern female style, but is really, I should say, quite her own, rather resembling the Greek, or the eighteenth century.
The Honorable Bertie Raven, second son of the Earl of Runnymede, might have stepped out of one of Poole's fashion-plates, so far as dress was concerned. But there was a strained look on his handsome, patrician face, and in his blue eyes, that told of a gnawing mental anxiety. He linked arms with his companion, and drew him to the edge of the pavement.
There was nothing shoppy in his demeanour now, even to Deb's prejudiced eye. The sisters walked up the nave to the altar, hand in hand. Deb passed the bridesmaid, Alice Urquhart, without a look her people had brought the young pair together, and were answerable for these consequences and similarly ignored those walking fashion-plates, Mrs and Miss Breen.
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