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"You see, my dear," said Madame Beattie, "years ago I had a necklace given me diamonds." She said it with emotion even. No one ever heard her rehearse her triumphs on the lyric stage. They were the foundation of such dignity as her life had known; but the gewgaws time had flung at her she did like, in these lean years, to finger over. "It was given me by a Royal Personage.
And now you have the explanation of the title of this chapter, and know wherefore Thomas Newcome never sat in Parliament. Where are our dear old friends now? Where are Rosey's chariots and horses? Where her jewels and gewgaws? Bills are up in the fine new house.
You come here now, perhaps, to compare it with the house of gewgaws which you have built, and in which you dwell." Saton did not for a moment shrink. In his heart he felt that it was one of his inspired moments. There was confidence alike in his bearing and in his gentle reply. "Why not?" he asked.
Beaufort, but she had learned none of the arts by which decayed gentlewomen keep the wolf from the door; no little holiday accomplishments, which, in the day of need turn to useful trade; no water-colour drawings, no paintings on velvet, no fabrications of pretty gewgaws, no embroidery and fine needlework.
"I shall not be much in the way of gewgaws just yet," said Anne drily. "It will be dull enough in some back room of Whitehall or St. James's." "Say you so. You will wish yourself back you, the lady of my heart mine own good angel! Hear me. Say but the word, and your home will be mine, to say nothing of your own most devoted servant." "Hush, hush, sir!
Still, her love of finery had never carried her so far as shop-lifting, or induced her to part with her honor for gewgaws irregularities which are so common nowadays, even among wives and mothers of families, that people are no longer astonished to hear of them. No Madame de Fondege was a faithful wife, in the strict and legal sense of the word. But how she revenged herself!
It's all perfectly throwed away on 'em. Gosh! I'd hate to be such a nut!" "Now, Lizzie, you know you hadn't oughtta talk like that!" reproved her grandmother, "After her giving you all that money fer your own wedding. A thousand dollars just to spend as you please on your cloes and a blow out, and house linens. Jest because she don't care for gewgaws like you do, you think she's a fool.
"But you don't see the hole where he's coming out. When that is dug, even the road will be lined with trees. Foolish old father! you thought I'd be carried away with city gewgaws, fine furniture, dresses, and all that sort of thing. You thought I'd be pining for what you couldn't afford, what wouldn't do you a particle of good, nor me either, in the long run.
When, therefore, one finds mountaineer nomads, it seems superfluous almost to describe them as being arrayed chiefly in gewgaws and bright-colored clothes. Camped here amid the dark, luxurious vegetation, they and their tents make a charming picture a scene of life and of contrast in colors which if faithfully transferred to canvas would be worth a king's ransom.
Then, with the associations of odor crowding in about her, she stripped herself of her gewgaws, as if here even the tarnished tinsel of pleasure could have no place, and tiptoed up the weary wind of three unlighted flights and through the thick staleness of unaired halls.
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