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Shoemaker and milliner and furniture man; that makes eleven." He lengthened his list on the margin of a newspaper. "Well, I never paid Van Nostrand for that painting, and I've even forgotten how much he said it would be. And there's a photograph bill a perfectly scandalous one and another dressmaker; Mrs. Edgar; I went back to her after Meg's woman got crusty, but she never'll sue me.
But it cannot be done; a talking rattling mercer, or draper, or milliner, behind his counter, would be worth nothing if he should confine himself to that mean silly thing called truth they must lie; it is in support of their business, and some think they cannot live without it; but I deny that part, and recommend it, I mean to the tradesmen I am speaking of, to consider what a scandal it is upon trade, to pretend to say that a tradesman cannot live without lying, the contrary to which may be made appear in almost every article.
But every slight that was put upon her, every change, every new-fangled idea, from the white sugar to the scented soap and the yellow buggy, rankled in the old man's heart. He had resentment both for the old wife and himself, and he hated the pink milliner for the humiliation that she heaped upon them both.
Maitland-Fox at the Ghezireh Palace, whom Lady Gardiner had met before, and from her she gathered the crumbs of gossip with which she immediately afterward regaled Virginia. She traded on her beauty and the lovely clothes with which some trusting milliner must have supplied her, to pick up rich or influential friends, from whom she was certain to extort money in some way or another.
She goes out every evening for her daughter, who is apprenticed to a milliner, and this time she took a drop too much, that is all!" A bitter sob was heard from the girl, who sat with her hands covering her face. Sanselme pitied the poor child. He took a twenty franc piece from his pocket. "I want a doctor," he said, "and pray make haste."
So you will find a wedding dress and all kinds of dresses and garments without number awaiting you, for I gave the milliner carte blanche. 'What's carte blanche, cousin? You are become so grand. 'Never mind white paper with two meanings. And here is a present to begin with. Howel takes a leather case from his pocket and puts it into Netta's hand.
"Penelope, do come back to Green Street with me." Kitty's voice was beseeching. "My little milliner was to have had a couple of hats ready for me this afternoon, which means she will arrive with a perfect avalanche of boxes, each containing a dinkier hat than the last, and I shall fall a helpless victim." Her husband grinned unkindly. "Yes, do come along, Penny," he urged.
Should the solemn question arise as to how I knew that one of these young women was in the straw-bonnet line, another a milliner, a third a dress-maker, and so forth, I will answer it by stating that the left forefinger of the seamstress, long since vulcanized into a little file, furnishes the infallible sign which indicates the class.
When she first told me that she was going out to look for work, I opposed it fiercely; but the obstinate little Pet would have her way. She was lucky enough to get a job from a milliner, and pleased her employer so well, that steady work was given to her, until last week, when the kind-hearted lady died, and now little Pet has nothing to do. Some people think, because she is young "
They have travelled by stumblin', and have measured every thing by the length of their knee, as they fell on the ground, as a milliner measures lace, by the bendin' down of the forefinger cuss 'em! Turn the tables on 'em. Report on them, measure them, but take care to keep your feet though, don't be caught trippin', don't make no mistakes.
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