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The pretty women, by this time in the short, gay foulards and in the dressy hats in which they will appear later at the Casino ball, are tripping up and down in the gas-lighted grounds. The scene is often illuminated by fireworks. At eight and a half the whole motley crew has entered the Casino, and there the most amusing dancing valse, galop, and polka is in vogue.
The variety of foulards, of gauzes, of alpacas, of camlets, of poplins, poplinettes, and Japanese silks, and even of silks themselves, which vary from three shillings to eight and nine shillings the yard, of satins, of velvets, and velveteens, have brought dress within the scope of moderate incomes.
"There were bills for something over forty thousand francs: gowns and ball dresses from Gagelin-Opigez, 23 Rue de Richelieu; hats and bonnets from Madame Alexandrine, 14 Rue d'Antin; lingerie and many petticoats from Madame Pauline, 100 Rue de Clery; dress trimmings and gloves from the Ville de Lyon, 6 Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin; foulards from the Malle des Indes; handkerchiefs from the Compagnie Irlandaise; laces from Ferguson; cosmetics from Candès.... This whitening cream of Candès, in particular, overwhelmed me with stupefaction.
"I rung up the Kosciusko Bank and the two-hundred-and-seventy-five-dollar check went through all right." "Sure it did," Morris replied, his drooping spirits once more revived. "I deposited it at eleven o'clock yesterday morning. I don't take no chances on getting stuck, Abe, and I only hope you didn't get stuck on them foulards, neither." Abe grinned broadly.
Here was a rare chance to lay in a stock of piece goods that might not recur for several years, certainly not before next season had passed. "It's to close an estate, gentlemen," Mr. Arkwright continued. "The proprietor of the mills died recently, and his executors have decided to wind up the business. All these silk foulards will be offered as one lot. What is the bid?"
Without doubt, consigned by some Paris merchant to some of his country customers, it contained a large quantity of articles for women's use. "Nicholas is not sold!" cried Calabash, unrolling a piece of muslin de laine. "No," answered the pirate, shaking out a package of foulards; "no, I have paid my expenses." "Levantine! that will sell like bread," said the widow, putting her hand in the box.
Many are the materials which suit the young and which are inexpensive. Alpacas of various shades, muslins, foulards, tarlatan, tulle, light silks, light in texture as well as colours. These are not expensive materials. We remember at this moment an exceedingly effective costume, made of white alpaca with a narrow green stripe, which was worn with a crinoline bonnet trimmed with mauve.
Amy, only think of the things we owe her for now my linen, my pongee, my canvas, your two foulards, Ina's muslin, Charlotte's etamine! It is impossible." "Oh, dear! Do we owe her for all those?" "We do." "Well, then, I fear you are right, Anna," Mrs. Carroll said, ruefully. The two women continued to look at each other. Mrs.
: If this be true, this could hardly have been a court, but must have been a mere investigation; as Sir John Borlase Warren was commander-in-chief, and would scarcely sit in a court of his own ordering. : Ned means Loto, probably. : Ned might have added "few duchesses." The ambassadors' bags in Europe, might ten many a tale of foulards, &c., sent from one court to another.
She hated foulards with their ugly sprawling patterns. A nice, elderly sort of material. Marcia was always urging her to get one. Hannah knew she never would. She liked the shops in their spring vividness. She had a shrewd eye for a bargain. A bite of lunch somewhere; then she had planned to drop in at that lecture at the Woman's Club. It was by the man who wrote "Your Town."
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