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Updated: May 13, 2025
Those who knew him well would have as soon expected to see a flower grow out of a cobble-stone as that Captain Asaph Ball should hide such a sentiment in his honest breast. He had fancied her a pretty girl in a pink dress, who would make some life in the quiet house, and sit and sing at her sewing by the front window, in all her foolish furbelows, as he came up the street.
Now, I'm cleverer and better-looking than lots of girls in our set Delia Spaulding, for instance but I don't have half the attention she receives, just on account of her fixings and furbelows." "And Miss Spaulding always manages to keep ahead in those sublimities," said Brother Tom. "Yes," assented Gertrude briskly.
"Even if she does wear too many ribbons and laces and fancy furbelows, with never a common-sense shoe to her foot!" "Even if she does" I assented warmly. And thus we were compelled to leave it. In view of those verses I could suggest no plan for relief, and my one poor morsel of encouragement had been stonily rejected. Eustace went the mad pace. So did Arthur Updyke.
Robinson, "Get all your furbelows and fixings together, and we'll go ashore in one of these boats. My! but it's warm!" It was hot, with the heat of the tropics, for the rainy season was not yet fully over, though it was approaching its end, and more pleasant weather might be expected.
By taste, I do not mean taste in flounces and in furbelows, tunics and stockings; but in the weightier matters of the truly sublime and the essentially ridiculous. Salvini's Macbeth is undoubtedly a fine performance; and yet that great actor, as the result of his study, has placed it on record that he thinks the sleep-walking scene ought to be assigned to Macbeth instead of to his wife.
Here were several yards of brown and white gingham, quite enough for a frock without any furbelows. With the roll in her hand she tapped at the partly open door. Rachel had laid out on the bed several white frocks, plain enough even for Salem tastes. "Cynthia's going to school on Monday," she announced. "And I thought this would make her a good school frock. It won't be dirtysome.
"I would not", she answered. "You cannot understand such ingratitude, poor Anne; you would have treated him more softly. Sit down and talk to me, and I will show thee my furbelows myself. All women like to chatter of their laced bodices and petticoats. That is what makes a woman." Anne was tremulous with relief and pleasure. It was as if a queen had bid her to be seated.
Rare was her taste; no clashing colors or absurd puffs and furbelows were ever allowed to disfigure her graceful form, and thus her appearance always charmed the artistic eye, although many of her schoolmates called her "odd" and "quakerish." Sibyl had already obtained her little triumphs.
Every one knows what the score of "Rosenkavalier" should have been, a gay, florid, licentious thing, the very image of the gallant century with its mundane amours and ribbons and cupids, its petit-maîtres and furbelows and billets-doux, its light emotions and equally light surrenders.
They were delicately pencilled, and Amory watched her and noted them. "No," he answered; "he didn't describe you, but I thought that was his taste. Now, you are neither silly nor little; no blonde; you have no curls and no furbelows. In fact" he smiled with something delightfully intimate in his eyes "in fact, you are much more the kind of girl I should like to marry."
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