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"They are put to so many shifts to hide it from the servants of their neighbours," said Helene. "Besides," and she made a little grimace of contempt, "a fine household and an overdrawn banking account it is like a ragged petticoat under a satin dress. That was never the case with Madame Dauvray." "So that she was under no necessity to have ready money always in her pocket," said Hanaud.
She put on her best petticoat and laced her blue bodice; for she thought the mother would perhaps take them across the wood to the little chapel for the Christmas service. Her long hair smoothed and tied, her shoes trimly fastened, downstairs she ran. The mother was stirring porridge over the fire. Toinette went close to her, but she did not move or turn her head.
Then the prince gave her a purse of gold in exchange for the finery, and on the waistband of the petticoat he read a beautiful name, and he said, 'This and no other shall be my wife, this unknown beautiful woman, and on our marriage night she shall wear this petticoat. And then the prince went forth seeking " "There's not much point in it," interrupted Sylvia.
''Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green, An' er name was Supi-yaw-lat, jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen. Is it possible to say anything prettier for yellow than that? My Dear Sir, I agree with every word you say. You have my entire sympathy. The world is indeed hard, hard to the sad particularly hard to the unsuccessful. A sure five hundred a year covers a multitude of sorrows.
And when Orlando asks her, "Where dwell you, pretty youth?" she answers, tripping in her role, "Here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat." In the second part of "King Henry IV.," act iv. scene 3, Falstaff says of Prince John: "Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel: he drinks no wine."
'Deducting the tax, there you are scaled down again. He pencilled some swift calculations. 'There, said he. And I nearly understood them. 'Now I'm not here to stop your buying that sort of petticoat and canary-bird wafer, continued Mr. Beverly. 'It's the regular trustee move, and nobody could criticise you if you made it.
Pequita disappeared for a moment, and returned divested of the plain rusty black frock she had worn, and merely clad in a short scarlet petticoat, with a low white calico bodice her dark curls tumbling in disorder, and grasping in her right hand a brightly polished, unsheathed dagger.
The afternoon express was coming into town this afternoon, and, when it was about two miles out, all of a sudden the engineer saw a red flannel petticoat hanging right down in the middle of the track, hanging by a clothes-line, mind, from the limb of a tree.
"We have no paper to make the fire burn, Miss Jenny Ann," cried Phyllis in desperation. "Paper!" returned their chaperon in disgust. "Have you children lived for two weeks on a desert island without learning to make what you have serve for what you desire?" Miss Jenny Ann slipped out of her white cotton petticoat and ran to the house to present it to Phil. "Here, use this for paper," she insisted.
Olivia was reading a novel, Augusta was crossing a note to her bosom friend in Baker Street, and Netta was working diminutive coach wheels for the bottom of a petticoat. If the bishop could get the better of his wife in her present mood, he would be a man indeed. He might then consider the victory his own forever.
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