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Sometimes I lodge as I buy; to such I no more ask for their passports than I ask you for an invoice." "Understood! but to those you let as dear as you buy of me cheap." "Must take care of one's self. I have a cousin who keeps a fine hotel in the Rue Saint Honore, while his wife is a mantua-maker, who employs as many as twenty assistants, either at her shop, or at their own homes."
A thrill ran through his frame, and his fingers tingled with a delicious electricity. The fair inconnue was there! He raised his hat gracefully. He was not certain, but he thought that a slight motion of her faultless bonnet betrayed recognition. He would have wildly darted into the shop, but just then the figure of the mantua-maker appeared in the doorway. Did monsieur wish anything? Misfortune!
"The lady in question is, not an angel, unless it be a fallen one; that I understand; good; then what is she?" "A mantua-maker!" exclaimed Lord Linden, in accents of deep mortification.
For she wore a frock of Annie's, nicely made to fit her, taken in at the waist and curved I never could explain it, not being a mantua-maker; but I know how her figure looked in it, and how it came towards me. But this is neither here nor there; and I must on with my story.
"You cut just now a very ludicrous figure, Anastasia. I dare assert that the nobleman who formerly inhabited yonder carcass would still be its tenant if he had known how greatly the beauty he went mad for was beholden to the haberdasher and the mantua-maker, and quite possibly the chemist.
What an endless theme for gossip and speculation would be afforded by the very suggestion that the fashionable mantua-maker came to the assistance of the young nobleman! Let Mr. Emerson understand that this money is paid by one of Maurice's relatives. That will be sufficient." "Good," returned Gaston; "and if he should conclude that it was supplied by Maurice's grandmother, all the better.
"Ah, I see you do not like to apply that epithet to her, and you are right. She should not be designated as a mantua-maker, but a great artist, a true artist, a fairy, who, with one touch of her wand, can metamorphose and beautify and amaze!" At that moment, a servant announced that the Countess Orlowski waited in her carriage, and desired him to say that she feared she was late.
As I have the honor of numbering Lady Augusta Linden, your lordship's sister, among my customers, I thought" "Customers? Your customers? You, then, are" "Mademoiselle Melanie, the mantua-maker," answered Madeleine with an unfaltering voice. "You? Can it be?"
At that minute Jo was particularly absorbed in dressmaking, for she was mantua-maker general to the family, and took especial credit to herself because she could use a needle as well as a pen. It was very provoking to be arrested in the act of a first trying-on, and ordered out to make calls in her best array on a warm July day.
Lord Linden, though he could not but be struck by the tone and manner of the viscount, echoed the words, "The right?" "Yes, the right, as well as the might. Mademoiselle Melanie, the mantua-maker, is in reality Mademoiselle Madeleine Melanie de Gramont, the daughter of the late Duke de Gramont, and the second cousin of my father, Count Tristan de Gramont."
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