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Mrs. Fayre sighed a little as she selected Dolly's wardrobe. She dearly loved to array her pretty daughter in muslins and organdies with dainty laces and ribbons; but camp life called for stout frocks of tweed or gingham, heavy walking boots and no fripperies. "I shall put in one or two pretty dresses," Mrs. Fayre said, "in case you are invited to a party or any such affair.
"They said as how the vicar had got you to go into a monkery that he might spend your money to pay for his fripperies in the church, his candles, and that smoky stuff, and his pictures and gold-embroidered dresses, and flags and crosses, and all they singing men and women, and dressing up the little boys, as if God cared for such things, or they could make us love Him and serve Him better, for that's my notion of what religion should do.
The girl usually "picked up" dresses immodestly or in the extreme of style, even though she is essentially shabby and poorly clad. To-day business sees to it that fripperies are within the reach of every purse. She usually corresponds to a type of prettiness favored in the community, often what is nowadays called the chicken type.
"What signify these fripperies?" she asked him, one day, "any more than did your coat of decent black? Are these also outward symbols?" "You may take them for such, madam," he answered sulkily. "You liked me not as I was " "And I like you less as you are," she broke in. "Cynthia, you mock me," he cried angrily. "Now, Heaven forbid! I do but mark the change," she answered airily.
Alice needed no ornaments, and fripperies would have struck a jarring note. Foster sometimes called her stately, though he felt that this was not quite what he meant. She had a certain quiet grace, touched with pride, that he had never noticed about anybody else, although he admitted that his knowledge of girls like Alice Featherstone was small.
"And there are some fripperies we simply must have," said Miss Penny, "even for a runaway wedding like this. You see, when we decided to come here we had no idea how much farther we were going, and so we couldn't possibly provide. Of course if we had known you were here " At which Margaret laughed. "You would have provided accordingly," said Graeme. "Well, you must put all the blame on to Mr.
I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women." "Ah, but these colonists here are crude and unfascinating. Wait till you see the ladies of the court, my ascetic." "It comes to my mind," I said dryly, "that I lived in Atlantis before I came out here, and at that time I used to see as much of court life as most men. Yet then, also, I felt no inducement to marry." Tatho chuckled.
And Margaret felt no shadow of regret at thought of the gauds and fripperies of a fashionable wedding which would not be hers. In John Graeme's true love she had the kernel. The rest was of small account to her. And that little church of Sark, plain walled and bare of ornament, always exerted upon her a most profoundly deepening and uplifting influence.
On a concert night, and in the ball-room, it was curled, and then it was full of amatory conquests; and, as he was captain in the Cavalry Volunteers, on field days his hair was straight and lank martial ardour gave him no time to attend to the fripperies of the coxcomb. These are but small particulars, but such are very important in the character of a great man.
'Well, it don't seem like I'd have much use for it after all, says Harvey. 'Of course I can always get a new one if my fancy happens to run that way again. "So old Safety First buys a new loaded rifle that he ain't got a use on earth for. It would of looked to outsiders like he was throwing his money away on fripperies, but he knew it was a prime necessity of life all right.
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