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Updated: May 6, 2025
The mantua-maker from Carlisle, who was five days in the house, said that hoops were getting very much larger this year, and she thought they would soon be as big as they were in Queen Anne's time. We had much smaller hoops of course it would not have been seemly to have the bridesmaids as smart as the bride and we were dressed alike, in white French cambric, with light green trimmings.
In order that servants may be treated with respect and courtesy, it is not necessary, as in simpler patriarchal days, that they sit at the family-table. Your carpenter or plumber does not feel hurt that you do not ask him to dine with you, nor your milliner and mantua-maker that you do not exchange ceremonious calls and invite them to your parties.
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.
They know, Monsieur, that above all things I love poetry, especially that which brings tears into the eyes." "Ah, I know," said I with a smile, "you are poetical as the winds which sigh amid your olive-groves, or the dews which drip from your fig trees." "No, Monsieur, I am only a mantua-maker a poor seamstress in ... street, in Aix, the name of which I am almost ashamed to tell you.
I am sure I don't know how the mantua-maker managed it, for the cloth was only bought on Monday morning; I suppose she must have had plenty of apprentices. The gowns were sacques of cherry damask, with quilted silk petticoats of black trimmed with silver lace.
So they could, if they knew which they were." "Which what were? It is easy to tell which is a fashionable milliner, or mantua-maker; everybody knows that." "It don't do some people any good," said St. Clair, turning away. "When they get in the shop, they do not know what to buy; and if they buy it they can't put it on. People that are not fashionable can't be fashionable."
A brother-in-law of his, who was a smith, he has made a legislator; and an uncle, who was a tailor, he has placed in the Senate. A cousin of his, who was a chimneysweeper, is now a tribune; and his niece, who was an apprentice to a mantua-maker, is now married to one of the Emperor's chamberlains.
Lord Linden, at first, found it difficult to avail himself of the privilege so frigidly given; but he soon collected himself. "The mantua-maker? How little that title seems to belong to you! The proudest, the noblest lady could not have inspired me with the respect, the veneration I feel for you." "Respect is peculiarly grateful to one in my position;" answered Madeleine pointedly.
"I shall bear your remarks in mind; though the accounts we have heard of the fair mantua-maker differ materially." "Who has dared to slander her?" demanded Gaston, with an air which seemed to assert his right to ask the question. "I have not said that she has been slandered. I see we are not likely to understand each other; let us join the ladies."
Before it the milliner, the tailor and the mantua-maker are helpless to render effective assistance to Age. Ah, Youth, careless, painless, peerless, I drink to you and put a drop of peppermint in it. Tom, I was up a little late with the boys last evening. Somehow the town presents to me a bereaved appearance.
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