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Updated: May 22, 2025
And here, by the winning-post, well in the front, having been there since the gates were open, were Maudie Hollis and Winny Dymond, in flower-wreathed hats and clean white frocks. Behind, conspicuous in their seats on the Grand Stand as became them, were Mr. and Mrs. Randall, and with them was Ranny's mother. For all these persons there was but one event the Hurdle Race.
But nearly all the mothers were kneeling on the grass under the trees, before the dead bodies, which they knew by their woollen frocks. Those who had no children were roaming about the market-place, stopping to gaze at the afflicted groups.
So I judged I'd got to do the other thing lay for them and eavesdrop. About that time I hears their footsteps coming, and was going to skip under the bed; I reached for it, but it wasn't where I thought it would be; but I touched the curtain that hid Mary Jane's frocks, so I jumped in behind that and snuggled in amongst the gowns, and stood there perfectly still.
Thompson's great wealth and her own great profusion. She began first with herself, and furnished an exact detail of all the fine things she had purchased in the last month, down to the latest box of pins. Next, her babies occupied her for half an hour the quantity of chicken they consumed, and the number of frocks they soiled per diem were minutely chronicled.
Blue Bonnet stood entranced before cases of the daintiest frocks that could be imagined. "Oh, Aunt Lucinda," she exclaimed, holding up two that attracted her, "I can't make up my mind which of these is the prettier. I adore this blue crepe with these sweet buttons, but the white organdy is such a love with that white fixing and, oh, will you look at that yellow chiffon!
"It is a pity that one so highly gifted cannot furnish herself with frocks," said the aunt, with a little more than her ordinary dryness of manner, "and suffer you to work for those who want them more." "You forget it is in order to remember me," said Julia, in a manner that spoke her own ideas of the value of the gift.
Only, whereas Nurse had made a Grand Toilette for Baby every other day, insisting that the little frocks and vests and flannels should be put on all clean together, Violet observed a longer and longer interval. On Sundays, when Ranny's mother saw her, Baby was still a Little Rose, a Honeypot, and a Fairy Flower.
We are quite different from what you stay-at-home women fancy. Tempting chiffon frocks and love affairs de luxe with handsome junior partners are farthest from our thoughts. We plan for lonely old age a home and an annuity, a trip to Europe or some other Carcassonne of our thwarted selves. We revel in things as you women do but we revel in them because people are shut away from us.
"It's better than hemming," Peggy said, "because you can take such long spidery stitches. But I just hate sewing. I'm never going to sew when I grow up." "But that is just the time you'll have to sew," said Alice. "No, I'm going to be a writing lady." "But they have to wear just as many frocks as other people," said Alice. "I'll have them made for me. I'll get such a lot of money by my writings."
Like Leslie, Norma admired her Aunt Annie enormously, and hungered for her most casual word. "You've plenty of frocks, Kiddie?" asked Annie. "One uses them up at the rate of about three a day!" "Oh!" Norma widened her innocent eyes "I've a wardrobe trunk full of them: white skirts and white shoes and hats!" "Well, I didn't suppose you had them tied in a handkerchief!"
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