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Updated: May 22, 2025
This, however, did not please Anna, who used to tell us that there was no room in her house for a modiste's establishment. Yet we had to get clothes to wear, to provide for unforeseen expenses, and to have a little money at our disposal in case we should some day wish to remove elsewhere. Unfortunately, the strain undermined my mother's health, and she became gradually weaker.
No white girl could have flung herself into the arms of her long-lost parent with more abandon than did Wonota. And that not-withstanding the costume she wore the very pretty one sent West from the Fifth Avenue modiste's shop! Perhaps the change in his lovely daughter shocked Totantora at first, He seemed not at all sure that this was really his Wonota.
But the landau, with its tall horses trotting on sonorously, had turned into the street and was approaching the house, when a slim fair-haired girl of sixteen or seventeen, a modiste's errand girl with a large bandbox on her arm, hastily crossed the road in order to enter the arched doorway before the carriage.
I apologized humbly, bowing; but my victim for such she seemed to think herself the victim of my premeditated brutality, lifted the frightened dog back to the refuge of her arms, glared at me, turned, and swept on to a modiste's door. Her haughtiness angered me. I held the fault as much hers as mine, for the pavement was not crowded and she seemed to have risen from it just to obstruct my passage.
The cheap story, written for the day, is dressed in all the fashionable articles that can be laid upon it, like the revolving lady in a shop window. The real story, which alone outlives the modíste's bonnets and shawls, may drape itself as it pleases; for it does not depend on its peplos, or stola, on its stomacher, or basque, or crinoline, for its effect.
And when on the next afternoon by chance, it seemed, as by chance it seems all our lives are ordered when at last by the same modiste's shop the same smart brougham drew up at the curb, the same haughty footman opened the door, and I saw the very same blue wings, I knew that I had found Penelope at last and I spoke without fear. She asked me what I had been doing all these years.
As a consequence of this sudden disturbance of the evolutionary law governing creation in the modiste's sense of the word, there was a sharp reaction a year later, which after the artificial stimulus of the previous season threw more women out of employment than ever; new fancy-trades had to be learned in apprenticeships at starvation wages with the result that wages had to be eked out in other ways.
She must have speeded up some Fifth Avenue modiste's establishment to the limit, but she's turned the trick, I'll say. Uh-huh! Not only the latest model evening gown, but she's had her hair done up spiffy, and she's got on a set of jewels that would make a pawnbroker's bride turn green. "Z-z-zing!" says I, catchin' my breath. "Excuse me, but I didn't know you were going to dress the part."
That summer the Baroness's streak of bad luck must have come to an end, for she began to make herself some fine clothes and prepared to move. For several weeks a modiste and her assistant came daily, with gowns and hats for the Baroness and Kate. Manuel, one night, saw the modiste's assistant go by with a huge box in her hand and was smitten.
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