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Updated: May 27, 2025
Because, you see, Jansena's mistress had wonderful things all trimmed with lace, and they would all come back from the washing torn and hanging in threads, and Jansena had to mend those as well as her own clothes. You see, they do not last at all and they cost a large sum of money; but it is proper for great ladies to wear them." "I am not sure of that, Britta," said Thelma, still musingly.
And the lady bought her spinning-wheel for a curiosity she said, and put it in the corner of a large parlor, and used to show it to her friends, and they would all laugh and say, 'How pretty! And Jansena, that was the girl never span again she wore linen that she got from the shops, and it was always falling into holes, and Jansena was always mending, mending, and it was no good!"
She had gathered some idea from her friend Jansena concerning life in London, she had even a misty notion of what was meant by a "trousseau" with all its dainty, expensive, and often useless fripperies; but she did not know how to explain her-self to her young mistress, whose simple, almost severe tastes would, she instinctively felt, recoil from anything like ostentation in dress, so she was discreetly silent.
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