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The only advantage I might ever derive from her was that she would darn my stockings, sew the buttons on my vests, and goffer the frills of my shirts! Was this not enough to turn any man's naturally sweet disposition to gall?
But how have you made it so stiff and crinkly?" the Major inquired curiously; and Mademoiselle laughed in gleeful triumph. "I 'ave curled it with the curling tongs not perhaps curl, but what the washerwoman would say `goffer, and for the rest, can you not see the wire?
Each ironer has a bit of wax, which he passes over the hot iron when he comes to the front, the collar, or the wrist-bands, and he boasts that he can goffer a frill or "bring up" a pattern of lace better than a Chinaman.
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