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But she had made for Rita Gould an organdy frock and hat to match universally admitted to be "too cunning for words," and the matrons went cautiously, with darting eyes and excessive politeness, to the rooms which Mrs. Swiftwaite had taken in the old Luke Dawson house, on Floral Avenue.
For stage-struck Seventeen, then, moodily pressing her pink organdy while mentally sweeping a triumphant course through a crowded ballroom in a sophisticated black model from Paris; or for dark-hued Martha who thumps out on a luckless shirt the damage she plans to inflict on a certain Pullman porter when he shows up at her back door again, provide an iron that cannot over-heat.
From the age of seventeen, when she had graduated from the high school in white ribbons and heavy new boots and tight new organdy to twenty-three, she had kept house and gone to gossip-parties and unmethodically read books from the town library Walter Scott, Richard Le Gallienne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mrs.
"Why, what's the matter?" asked Amos. "We vote on the Levine bill, the morning I get back to Washington. I just ran out to see young Lydia graduate." Amos groaned, "John, you're a fool!" Levine laughed. "Lydia, am I a fool?" He looked down at the flushed face above the dainty organdy. "No," she answered, giving him a swift look. "You're a goose and a lamb." "So!
Is there never any contentment, never any rest?" She shook her head as though she were shaking off water, and hastened into the library, a young, light, amiable presence, modest in unbuttoned fur coat, blue suit, fresh organdy collar, and tan boots roughened from scuffling snow. Miss Villets stared at her, and Carol purred, "I was so sorry not to see you at the Thanatopsis yesterday.
The music stopped, and the singer came out of the house and stood on the white steps below between the lions, still humming. It was Molly Glendenning, in her rose-coloured hat and dainty ruffled dress of palest pink organdy. "Oh, isn't she beautiful!" exclaimed Mary Lee, peeping out between the curtains. "Look, Travis. What a picture she makes!
She was so orderly, so well balanced, one stitch of her hand-sewed organdy collar was so clearly identical with every other, her very seams, if you can understand it, ran so exactly where they should, that she set me to pulling myself straight. I am rather casual as to seams. After a time I began to have a curious feeling about her.
Perhaps the dresses were simple, but they looked expensive and dressy," she added for want of a better word. "That pretty dark girl that sat next me had on the darlingest pink organdy with a Dutch neck. Oh, it was so dear. I wonder where she got it?" She had not long to wonder. The Boston shops seemed to have anticipated the needs of girls all over the country.
And Patty pounced on a white organdy, made with a full skirt and three narrow, lace-edged frills. There were wide, full petticoats to go with it, and Patty declared that was her costume. Marie found a dimity, of a Dresden-flowered pattern, with black velvet bows, which she appropriated, and they flew back to their rooms in triumph.
There was in it thankfulness for the past and reverent petition for the future; and when she slept on her white pillow her dreams were as fair and bright and beautiful as maidenhood might desire. "Put on your white organdy, by all means, Anne," advised Diana decidedly.
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