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Updated: June 18, 2025
Corrie, of course, never dreamt of offering poor Chrissy a loan of any of those worked pelerines or aprons, which would have fitted either equally well. But Chrissy did not want them, and she got a use out of them as they were brought out one by one and spread before her.
The ladies, wearing bonnets, had on dresses in the town fashion, gold watch chains, pelerines with the ends tucked into belts, or little coloured fichus fastened down behind with a pin, and that left the back of the neck bare. As there were not enough stable-boys to unharness all the carriages, the gentlemen turned up their sleeves and set about it themselves.
Double and triple collars and "pelerines" of muslin were to be found in the hands of all women of high or low degree.
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