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Updated: May 2, 2025
"If I were to send her out into the world, I had rather bind her apprentice to the Misses Rigby to learn mantua-making." "Nay, nay, my dear; so long as I live there is no need for my children to come to such straits." "As long as you retain your situation, sir; but you perceive how my Lady concludes her letter."
Beulah, since I have seen you sitting up nearly all night, pouring over books that rail at Jesus and his doctrines, I have repented the hour I first suggested your educating yourself to teach. If this is what all your learning has brought you to, it would have been better if you had been put out to learn millinery or mantua-making.
There was no mistake about that; even here, in the rustic heart of the continent he had seen costumes which had touch and distinction; and it could not be that the instinct which they sprang from should go for nothing in the arts supposed higher than mantua-making and millinery.
Robinson’s compliments, and she’s in very good spirits, and doesn’t find herself any worse.’ The piano was heard no longer, the knitting-needles were laid aside, drawing was neglected, and mantua-making and millinery, on the smallest scale imaginable, appeared to have become the favourite amusement of the whole family.
Swimming in company with the girls of the valley—A canoe—Effects of the taboo—A pleasure excursion on the pond—Beautiful freak of Fayaway—Mantua-making—A stranger arrives in the valley—His mysterious conduct—Native oratory—The interview—Its results—Departure of the stranger. Returning health and peace of mind gave a new interest to everything around me.
About a fortnight after she had begun mantua-making, she presented herself to me one day, as I came from work, in her new gown; and, truly, considering the scanty description I had given her of such a garment, it appeared a good comely dress. I could see no opening before, so asked her how she got it on.
He combed his hair straight, and looked studiously after the main chance; and while he looked, he employed himself in setting a good example. His dress was rigidly plain, and his wife was not indulged in the vanities of millinery and mantua-making. He never joked. He did not know what a joke was, any further than to know that it was a sin. He carried a Sunday face through the week.
'Venice Preserved too, said she, 'I think you have been there is it well or ill preserved for people differ so and Maccaroni if they really eat it like the conjurors why not cut it shorter, you are acquainted Arthur dear Doyce and Clennam at least not dear and most assuredly not Doyce for I have not the pleasure but pray excuse me acquainted I believe with Mantua what has it got to do with Mantua-making for I never have been able to conceive?
"Under orders!" said Mr. Carpenter. "Yes, all the time. How d'you think we feel about it?" "Must be uncommon powers of reaction," said the farmer. "My wife a'n't anywheres near killed yet." "Think any one'll ever get that piece of mantua-making under orders?" said Mrs.
She was sixteen then, and she followed the fortunes of a certain adventurer who found it advisable to sail for Montreal. Ninon had been bored back in Paris, it being dull in the mantua-making shop of Madame Guittar. If she had been a man she would have taken to navigation, and might have made herself famous by sailing to some unknown part of the New World.
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