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And next morning she was up betimes, starching and ironing and goffering dainty little frills with such a look of love and satisfaction on her face, that he had not the heart to hint that she had availed herself somewhat liberally of his permission, and that less dainty care and crispness might do equally well for the baby, bundled up in Mrs Gray's kind but crumpling arms, to take the place of Bill's faded pinafore.
"Very well," Jean acquiesced, "you are getting to be none so ill with the goffering iron and the pliers " "Better with the fancy than the plain!" laughed Patsy. "It is to be expected, you have the light hand, and you have taste most have neither one nor the other, but iron for all the world like a roller going over a wet field."
There was Monpavon, his shirt-front bulging like a whipped egg. Cardailhac breathlessly giving his last orders, and the honest face of Jansoulet, whose sparkling eyes, set over his fat, sunburnt cheeks, looked like two gold nails in a goffering of Spanish leather. Suddenly an electric bell rang. The station-master, in a new uniform, ran down the line: "Gentlemen, the train is signalled.
She says 'conserv't'ry' and 'observ't'ry'; she calls the chambermaid 'Mairy, which is infinitely softer, to be sure, than the American 'Mary, with its over-long a; she ejaculates 'Quite so! in all the pauses of conversation, and talks of smoke-rooms, and camisoles, and luggage-vans, and slip-bodies, and trams, and mangling, and goffering.
In the centre, the initials of Mary were like the dazzling of a relief in massive gold, a marvellous blending of lacework and of embossing, or goffering, which burnt like the glory of a tabernacle in the mystic fire of its rays.
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