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I am so happy you came!" whispered she with a tremor. "God bless you, dear little Bessie! Give me this for a keepsake," said Harry, and took a white, half-blown rose which she wore in the bosom of her pretty dress of lilac percale. She let him have it.
This glimpse of an officer of the law, shorn, as it were, of his dignity, had made Johnnie realize, even as a babe, that policemen are but mortals after all, as ready to be pleased with a wedge of pie as any youngster, and given to the wearing of ordinary striped percale shirts under their majestic blue. So Johnnie was neither in awe of, nor feared, them.
She had white water-waves that escaped their decorous plastering into waving little tendril curls, and her mouth was as curled and red-lipped and dimpled as a girl's. In a twinkling of those blue eyes I fell out of the carriage into a pair of strong, soft, tender arms covered with stiff gray percale, and received two hearty kisses, one on each cheek.
What difference would it make to us whether we had only one white percale gown, if the man we love did not see other women dressed differently, more elegantly than we women who inspire ideas by their ways, by a multitude of little things which really go to make up great passions?
The nurse now packed in a little trunk the percale robe and white skirt, a pair of cotton stockings and black shoes and then a little bouquet of flowers for Rosette to wear in her hair. Just as she was about to close the trunk, the window opened violently and the fairy Puissante entered. "You are going, then, to your father's court, my dear Rosette?" said the fairy.
Also the dress of even the poorest of their women was different from the jackets of the peasants; they usually wore drilling or percale, herded their cattle in shoes not of bark but of leather, and reaped and even spun with gloves on. The Dobrzynskis were distinguished among their Lithuanian brethren by their language and likewise by their stature and their appearance.
The wall covering of blue percale which has caused such an outcry was in my chamber at the printing house. Letouche and I tacked it with our own hands over a frightful wall-paper, which would otherwise have had to be changed. My books are my tools and I cannot sell them.
I will enjoy myself and become acquainted with my father, mother and my sisters and then I will return to you." "But," said the nurse, shaking her head, "what dress will you wear, my poor child?" "My beautiful robe of white percale which I always wear on holidays, my dear nurse."
Her wardrobes were full of the daintiest and costliest gowns of which, we are told, more than two hundred were summer-dresses of percale and of muslin, costing from one thousand to two thousand francs each. Less than six years of such splendour and luxury, and the inevitable end of it all came.
Jean's conscience commanded her instead to hang her riding-clothes in the closet and wear striped percale and a gingham apron, which she hated; and to sweep and dust and remember not to whistle, and to look sympathetic, which she was not, particularly; and to ask her Aunt Ella frequently if she felt any better, and if there was anything Jean could do for her.
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