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Updated: October 26, 2025
Helen pursed her lips and petulantly tapped the floor with her foot. "But the other gown?" "Where is it?" asked the dressmaker, looking about. "It would make a pretty morning-dress " But Helen had taken a sudden dislike to the thought of it. "I don't want it," she declared. "And besides, I haven't room for it in my trunks."
A message came from the Captain, while she was standing before her glass, tying a crimson ribbon under the collar of her white morning-dress. Would she please to go to Captain Winstanley in the study? She went without an instant's delay, walked quietly into the room, and stood before him silently as he sat at his desk writing.
There came still another day, when robed in a pretty pink morning-dress, Charley lifted her in his arms and carried her to the arm-chair by the window, whence she could look down on the bright, busy city street, whilst he sat at her feet and talked. Talked! who is to tell of what?
The daughter's small, plump figure promised to develop in that direction; but at present it had only a soft and budding roundness of contour, that looked charming in the simple morning-dress, in which alone Mansana had seen her. The father's eyes had lost their colour and fire; the daughter's were half-hidden by down-drooping eyelids, and a slight bend of the head.
Full-dress seemed for the time to be best, as bringing forward into relief the splendor of her person, and allowing the exposure of her arms; a simple morning-dress, again, seemed better still, as fitted to call out the childlike innocence of her face, by confining the attention to that.
Burton on a sofa, and placed herself in her own chair from whence she could see well, but in which she could not be well seen and stretched out the folds of her morning-dress gracefully, and made her visitor thoroughly understand that she was at home and at her ease.
An appearance of conscious superiority which distinguished her, and her independent air, might be attributed to her conviction that Belle Clinton, the beauty and the heiress, attired in a blue cashmere morning-dress, richly embroidered, and open in front, for the purpose of displaying an equally rich flounced cambric petticoat.
She is making herself a pair of shoes, which look very well; I have made myself a morning-dress since we were closed in. "Last night I took my first lesson in whist-playing. I learned in one evening to know the king, queen, and jack apart, and to understand what my partner meant when she winked at me. "The worst of this condition of things is that we shall bear the marks of it all our lives.
The door opened, and a tall, elegant woman, in a tasteful morning-dress came in. Her fine, regular features were disturbed, and her eyes were red with weeping or watching. When she saw Gluck looking so fresh and vigorous, she smiled, and said, "Heaven be praised, you are alive and well! I have passed a night of anxious terror on your account."
As he dropped into one of the close lanes which led up to Wrexby Hall, he saw Rhoda standing under an oak, her white morning-dress covered with sun-spots. His impulse was to turn back, the problem, how to speak to her, not being settled within him.
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