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Updated: May 1, 2025
What was the good of it? What did men want with stair-carpets? His own apartment contained a wonderful assortment of lumber. Shelves which he nailed himself, old Indian garments, camphor trunks. What did he want with gewgaws? anything was good enough for an old soldier.
His Majesty took no notice of this, and was much amused by the interest excited in this seller of topknots, as he called her. "I will," said his Majesty on this subject, "let the gossips talk, who think it a point of honor to ruin themselves for gewgaws; but I want this old Jewess to learn that I put her inside because she had forgotten that I told her to stay outside."
Silas Congreve shall be furnished with gewgaws, which very soon she will possess in abundance, and to spare.
But every enlightened man should regret that our female Dress is not more grave, classical, chaste, subdued, and appropriate, combining taste and utility, refinement and strength. A woman in full street Dress, with her profusion of ornaments, her flounces and fly-about gewgaws, is a very poor representation of good sense, refinement, and cultured, classic taste.
"Well," said Strether, "he can't stand it." "But can't stand what?" "Anything. Europe." "Then how will that jeweller help him?" Strether seemed to make it out, from their position, between the interstices of arrayed watches, of close-hung dangling gewgaws. "You'll see." "Ah that's just what if he buys anything I'm afraid of: that I shall see something rather dreadful."
Cheap and tawdry enough were the commodities bartered for these wonderful beaver and otter pelts ribbons and gewgaws, looking-glasses and combs, blankets and shawls of gaudy color. But scissors and knives, gunpowder and shot, tobacco and whiskey, went also in the traders' packs, though traffic in fire-water was forbidden.
'Now we shall have a little rest, I hope, chimed in Cathie. 'I shall send her home to her parents this very night, declared Aunt Margarine; 'she shall not stay here to pervert our happy household with her miserable gewgaws! Here Priscilla found her tongue.
The compliments to be exchanged, the silly verses to be praised, the gewgaws from Paris to be admired, were all contrasted in his mind with the vision of that other life which had come to him on the hillside of the Superga. On this mood the Countess Clarice's sarcasms fell without effect.
They are executed in silver-gilt or brass relief, and adorned with tawdry fringe or other gewgaws.
It was the residence of five hundred years of power and of luxury, where masterpieces, worthy of the great Medicis, and executed in their time, alternated with the gewgaws of the eighteenth century and bronzes of the First Empire, with silver trinkets ordered but yesterday in London. Baron Justus could not resist these.
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