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No Maid of Honor had ever written a novel before. It was quite an event. Dear Prince Albert borrowed a copy of me one night to read in bed I have it still, with the page turned down where he left-off. She hesitated. 'It was only in the second chapter, she said at last with a fine truthfulness, 'but you know he was so busy, all the Queen's work to do, of course, besides his own poor man!
The little forced economies in dress, the frocks that had to be turned, the bonnets that were beauties when they were bought, but had to be worn until the changes of fashion made them frights, and then the mysterious parcels of left-off clothing from goodness knows where how the independence of the girl's spirit rebelled against such humiliations!
If some of us, whose 'ambition is more lowly, pry a little too narrowly into nooks and corners to pick up a number of 'unconsidered trifles, they never once direct their eyes or lift their hands to seize on any but the most gorgeous, tarnished, threadbare, patchwork set of phrases, the left-off finery of poetic extravagance, transmitted down through successive generations of barren pretenders.
Muttering something beneath his breath, the pawnbroker opened his door, and let me into the shop. It was a dingy nest, fitted up with the usual furniture of such a place. The one dim candle threw a ghostly light on chairs, clocks, compasses, trinkets, saucepans, watches, piles of china, and suits of left-off clothes arrayed like rows of suicides along the wall.
Many and many a way Can I be struck or fretted night or day In some new fashion, or condemn'd the while To take for food the semblance of a smile, The left-off rapture of a slain caress, " Ah! she caught her breath sobbingly, "The left-off rapture of a slain caress!" Yes, that would be her portion now if if she stayed to receive it. But she would not stay!
When she could read easily, which she learned to do in two or three months, she borrowed left-off school-books from the girls, and worked slowly on, and two years later had made up for all her early deficiencies, and knew as much as any of those who had passed through the school. From the day of her compact of friendship with Jack her appearance and demeanour had been gradually changing.
There was something of the tenderness of love in the very folding, and respect as well as friendship in the care of the packing. Her aunt's left-off clothes had come to her in a big roll, fastened with a corking-pin. But Rebecca, with delicate fingers, had made each article of her tribute to look pretty, as though for the dress of such a one as Nina prettiness and care must always be needed.
"My dear," said my wife, fluttering into my room about twenty minutes after Jane had started, "Jane has been to the boot-hole and taken all the left-off boots and shoes, and gone off to the wedding with them in a bag. Surely she cannot mean " "Jane," I said, "is developing character. Let us hope for the best." Jane came back with a pale, hard face.
Why, if this were not a mere customary saying on mournful occasions if the parties really believed this do you think they would attach any importance to the dead body which we bury underground? No; to be sure: they would look upon it merely as a suit of left-off clothes with the difference of being unpleasant and offensive, and not capable of being kept.
I ask to see the blouse she is to wear with the skirt, and it appears that this is not a real blouse at all, but a knitted kerchief. But she has a left-off jacket that one of her sisters gave her, and that will go outside and hide all the rest. Olga is growing so fast, I am told, that there's no sense in buying a blouse for her this twelvemonth to come.
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