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Ludgate, lowering her tone "because, to tell you a bit of a secret, Lucy, I've run up rather an unconsciable bill, this year, with my milliner and mantua-maker; and I would not have all them bills come upon him all in a lump, and on a sudden, as it were; especially as I laid out more on the furniture than he counts.
But of them, or of any sensation caused by his presence, he seemed utterly unconscious. With arms folded and head drooped upon his chest, he shut his eyes and abandoned himself to meditation. "Massy on us," whispered Miss Green, the mantua-maker, to her next neighbor, Miss Thompson, the tailoress, "if here ain't old Holden. I wonder what fetches him here."
She is right, when one comes to think of it. Nor would she let the trousseau be displayed; she did not think it proper, but I saw enough to know that there were marvels in linen, muslin, silks, and surahs, covered all over with lace. One could see that the great mantua-maker had not consulted the grandmother, who says that women of distinction in her day did not wear paltry trimmings.
In short, Mademoiselle Melanie was not a mantua-maker, or milliner, she was the genius of taste, the artful embodier of poetry in outward adorning. Her own person was strikingly attractive; but the severest simplicity characterized her attire.
I am no finer lady than was my mother. Once I was servant and nurse in the house of M.... Ah! they were good people and treated me always as if I belonged to the family. I too thought I did. My health however, obliged me to leave them and establish myself as a mantua-maker, in one room, with no companion but a goldfinch. That, however, is not the question you asked me, why I have come hither?
She is so studious, I know she would learn very rapidly." "My dear madam, you do not in the least understand what you are talking about. It would require at least five years' careful training to fit her to teach, and our finances do not admit of any such expenditure. As the best thing for her, I should move to bind her out to a mantua-maker or milliner, but she could not stand the confinement.
And I remembered what my mantua-maker had said. "Did you have that dress made there?" "For shame, St. Clair!" said Miss Bentley; "let Miss Randolph alone. I am sure her dress is very neat." "I wonder if women don't wear long hair where she came from " said the girl, turning away from me again. The others laughed. I was as little pleased at that moment with the defence as with the attack.
Rose is with Madame la Grace, your mantua-maker, who says she is more handy and more expert at cutting out than girls she has had these three years. Marianne is in the service of Madame de V , who has lost a great part of her large fortune, and cannot afford to keep her former waiting-maid. Madame de V is well pleased with Marianne, and bids me tell you that she thanks you for her.
Bayard, who was attending Count Tristan, but the countess was even more opposed to him than to any other medical attendant. Was he not aware of her relationship to the mantua-maker? Had he not seen Count Tristan recognize that humble and degraded relative when he did not know his own mother? his own son?
'I assure you, my dear madam, replied he, 'there shall be a bracket for a bust of you. Some time after this, he informed Mrs Hussey that the work was in the press; but, immediately recollecting that he had forgotten his promise to her, went to the printer, and was time enough to insert, in vol. iii. p. 17, where he speaks of the shape of Sophia Western 'Such charms are there in affability, and so sure is it to attract the praises of all kinds of people.... It may indeed be compared to the celebrated Mrs Hussey. To which observation he has given the following note: 'A celebrated mantua-maker in the Strand, famous for setting off the shapes of women."
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