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"Don't," replied that functionary. "I hope you've forgot nothink? Miss 'Melia's gownds have you got them as the lady's maid was to have 'ad? I hope they'll fit you. Shut the door, Jim, you'll get no good out of 'ER," continued John, pointing with his thumb towards Miss Sharp: "a bad lot, I tell you, a bad lot," and so saying, Mr. Sedley's groom drove away.
"Nothing won't do but to be at it from the very beginning," said the superior, with a toss of his powdered head; "fight after it as much as ever they like, wear the best of gownds, and go to the fustest of boarding-schools though they plays ever so well on the piando, and talks Italian like a reg'lar Frenchman nothing won't do there's the boiled mutton and turnips shocking wulgarity!
And messages about her gownds coming up which will she have, if you please, and which won't she have! I'll borror one of the horses to-morrow, and go shopping myself on a side-saddle!" "Has Rachel gone shopping to-night?" cried one of the women, pausing in her ironing. "I did not know she was out." "She has been out all the evening," was Nancy's answer. "I met her coming down the stairs, dressed.
'Who d'you think's to mek gravy anuff, if you're to baste people's gownds wi' it? 'Well, suggested John, humbly, 'you should wet the bottom of the duree a bit, to hold it from slippin'. 'Wet your granny! returned the cook; a retort which she probably regarded in the light of a reductio ad absurdum, and which in fact reduced John to silence.
"If one of t' witch dwarfs wud come from t' lane moors to-night, and gif hur money, to go out, out, I say, out, lad, where t' sun shines, and t' heath grows, and t' ladies walk in silken gownds, and God stays all t' time, where t' man lives that talked to us to-night, Hugh knows, Hugh could walk there like a king!"
"If one oft' witch dwarfs wud come from t' lane moors to-night, and gif hur money, to go out, OUT, I say, out, lad, where t' sun shines, and t' heath grows, and t' ladies walk in silken gownds, and God stays all t' time, where t'man lives that talked to us to-night, Hugh knows, Hugh could walk there like a king!"
Jim here vaguely murmured to the fire that he thought her "kinder nice," and that she dressed mighty purty. "Ye know, Mag," he said with patronizing effusion, "you oughter get some gownds like hers." "That wouldn't make me like her," said Maggie gravely. "I don't know about that," said Jim politely, but with an appalling hopelessness of tone.
"It wasn't for the likes of them gownds to trail through sich truck," Bridget O'Donohue said, and so, on the days when Daisy was expected, she scrubbed the floor, which, until Daisy's advent had not known water for years, and rubbed and polished the one wooden chair kept sacred for the lady's use.
The October meeting was just begun at Cambridge when I went. I saw the students in their gownds and capps, and rode over to the famous Newmarket Heath, where there happened to be some races my friend Lord Marchs horse Marrowbones by Cleaver coming off winner of a large steak.
But the chief part o' the bill, sir, is for two silk gownds as was had of our traveller. Mrs. Verner, sir, she happened to be here when he called in one day last winter, and she saw his patterns, and she chose two dresses, and said she'd buy 'em of me if I ordered 'em. Which in course I did, sir, and paid for 'em, and sent 'em home.
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