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Updated: May 4, 2025
And when I saw the newly-built house, with the green-painted shutters, the vine beside the doorway, and the bench and bundles of osiers before it; when I saw a tidy, neatly-dressed woman within it, nursing a plump, pink and white baby among the workmen, who were singing merrily and busily plaiting their wicker-work under the superintendence of a man who but lately had looked so pinched and pale, but now had an atmosphere of prosperity about him; when I saw all this, I confess that I could not forego the pleasure of turning basket-maker for a moment, of going into the shop to hear how things went with them, and of giving myself up to a feeling of content that I cannot express in words, for I had all their happiness as well as my own to make me glad.
In Tlaxco, a small village in this municipio, four idioms are spoken Aztec, Otomi, Totonac and Tepehua. Two years before, just as my work was ending, we were in the great Otomi town of Huixquilucan, in the state of Mexico. While resting at midday, I noticed a neatly-dressed and clean young indian, plainly not Otomi, with whom I conversed.
After all, our interrogation of the doctor was quite unnecessary. We were admitted at once to the Grange by a neatly-dressed parlour-maid. Mrs. Smith-Lessing was at home, and the girl did not for a moment seem to doubt her mistress's willingness to receive us. As she busied herself poking the fire and opening wider the thick curtains, Ray asked her another question.
Any observer who should have seen the neatly-dressed lawyer peering into the broken doors and up the black staircases of Thomas Street, would naturally have supposed his visit connected with some revelation of crime, and that he was either looking up a witness whose testimony might be necessary to save a perilled burglar from Sing Sing, or taking measures to keep one hidden who might have told too much if brought upon the witness-stand.
'Twas a humming and muttering without end, a murmuring and whispering loud and soft and a restless stir and movement: a little world full of neatly-dressed damsels, who were all so lightly, so prettily decked out and who knew how to manage their trains and their fine clothes so demurely and so comically.
A neatly-dressed, dumpy little woman in a black dress and shawl sat beneath it, and behind a row of stone crocks beside her was a young girl several years older than Lucia, who ladled out cupfuls of the milk that the crocks contained, and gave them, always accompanied by a shy little smile, to the soldiers in return for their pennies.
Henry shouldered the basket, and passed out the door, just as a neatly-dressed colored man walked up, with his pail and whitewash brushes. "O, you've come, father, have you? Mary, are the biscuits in? You may as well set the table, now. Well, George, what's the news?" "Nothing, only a pretty smart day's work.
The expression on her face was so tense and vivid, that it seemed that in an instant either she would burst into tears or break into laughter. 'Emil! what is it? Emil! was heard outside, and a neatly-dressed lady with silvery grey hair and a dark face came with rapid steps into the room. A middle-aged man followed her; the head of a maid-servant was visible over their shoulders.
"And now," said Mr. George to the other waiter, "we want a good fire made here, and then let us have dinner as soon as you can." "Very well, sir," replied the waiter; and so saying he bowed respectfully and retired. A neatly-dressed young woman, in a very picturesque and pretty cap, had come into the room with the party, and while Mr.
The water, in fact, came up within a few inches of the level of the road. The line of the road was formed by a smooth and straight margin of stone, like the margin of a fountain, with little platforms extending out here and there, where neatly-dressed girls and women were washing.
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