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"I'm ashamed to be seen out," said Mrs. Gribble. "A woman's place is the home," said Mr. Gribble; "and so long as I'm satisfied with your appearance nobody else matters. So long as I am pleased, that's everything. What do you want to go dressing yourself up for? Nothing looks worse than an over-dressed woman." "What are we going to do with all that money, then?" inquired Mrs.
At every procession he was to be seen, mounted on a spanking horse, ridiculously over-dressed the man, we mean, not the horse flaunting with ribands, and quite puffed up at the position to which he had raised himself. This certainly was not the humble and thankful feeling with which he ought to have borne his prosperity.
She had refused the "Thorn Fortress, which she was told would explain the game, and had hunted out "Clare, or No Home, to compare her lot with that of the homeless one. Certainly, she had not yet been sent to bed with a box on the ear because a countess had shown symptoms of noticing her more than her ugly, over-dressed cousin.
As, however, he had made a movement he re- settled himself comfortably and said, with very creditable indifference, that yes she was, rather. Especially amongst a lot of over-dressed frumps. There wasn't one woman under forty there. "You aren't moderate in your expressions you know." "I express myself very little," interjected Renouard seriously. "I will tell you what you are.
He was not the over-dressed dandy, but the full-dressed gentleman of refined taste, in his external appearance. Anthony Maxwell had been educated at a northern institution.
And how many melancholy tales of the same people at different periods! The country-girl—the showy, over-dressed woman—the drunken prostitute! The raw apprentice—the dissipated spendthrift—the thief! Talk of cabs! Cabs are all very well in cases of expedition, when it’s a matter of neck or nothing, life or death, your temporary home or your long one.
The reader will easily believe that these preparations were beheld, by a party of hungry soldiers, with no indifferent eye. An elegant dinner, even though considerably over-dressed, was a luxury to which few of them, at least for some time back, had been accustomed; and which, after the dangers and fatigues of the day, appeared peculiarly inviting.
He arrived at the house nearly half an hour late, but before he could take off his overcoat, Mrs. Cedarquist appeared in the doorway of the drawing-room at the end of the hall. She was dressed as if to go out. "My DEAR Presley," she exclaimed, her stout, over-dressed body bustling toward him with a great rustle of silk. "I never was so glad. You poor, dear poet, you are thin as a ghost.
Something in my eye caused her to turn at the very door. "Don't you dare!" she hissed; then, banishing the warning scowl from her face, and assuming a near-smile, she entered the room and I followed miserably at her heels. The Whalens rose and came forward effusively; Mrs. Whalen, plump, dark, voluble; Sally, lean, swarthy, vindictive; Flossie, pudgy, powdered, over-dressed. They eyed me hungrily.
Moresco, angered, gave him a black scowl and took the cup. "By Jove," said the youth who had, upon the dock, picked up Herr Kreutzer's bag. He was standing on the promenade-deck, above, beside his very, very stately mother, who, over-dressed and full of scorn for the whole world, was complaining because her doctor's orders had suggested traveling upon so slow and old a ship.
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