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Ethelwyn made no answer; she was attentively observing Pennie's blue serge frock, and presently asked: "What's your best dress?" "It's the same as this," said Pennie, looking down at it meekly, "only newer." "Mine's velveteen," said Ethelwyn, "the new shade, you know a sort of mouse colour. Nurse says I look like a picture in it. Do you always wear pinafores?"
It is only by love that understanding comes, and no one ever understood children better or painted them half so well: they are no mites of puny perfection, no angels astray, no Psyches in all the agonies of the bursting chrysalis, but real little flesh-and-blood people in pinafores, approached by nobody's hand so nearly as George Eliot's.
To how many grave political combinations were these unfortunate infants to give rise, and how distant the period when great nations might no longer be tied to the pinafores of children in the nursery! After this little confidential interlude, James expressed in loud voice, so that all might hear, his determination never to permit the subjugation of the Netherlands by Spain.
'All happy and not caring, thought Dolores. 'Now don't fash Miss Mohun with your tricks. She has stood like a lamb, said Mrs. Halfpenny reprovingly. 'There, we'll not keep her to find an apron. 'I don't wear pinafores, said Mysie, 'but I don't mind pretty aprons like this. 'Why, my sisters had them for tennis, before they went out to India. Come along, Dora, grasping her hand.
Great numbers of children were playing about in distinct bands; each troop was accompanied by one and sometimes two older people, girls or women who lay stretched out on the warm grass or leaned against the tree-trunks reading novelettes, and around them the children whirled and screamed and laughed. It was a world of waving pinafores and thin black-stockinged legs and shrill, sweet voices.
When I was a young hand at reviewing I used to find that a frightful pitfall dilating upon subjects I met with, which were novelties to me, and finding afterwards they had been exhausted by the thinking world when I was in pinafores. 'That is delightful.
They had gone to school together in the days of pinafores and sunbonnets and picked spring's wild flowers along the roadsides and in the woodlands. They had knitted and made lace together, gone to picnics and parties, always together, until the time came when a tall Green Valley boy walked beside each. And even then they were inseparable.
And a smile sparkled through the tears as Phebe looked at the piece of elegance before her and thought of the brown gowns and pinafores. So, after much discussion, it was decided that she should have her way in all things and the family content themselves with applauding from the front.
It was they who introduced smocked pinafores to you; and those modish patent-leather belts for children at which your grandmothers would have raised horrified hands. They taught you that an inch of hand embroidery is worth a yard of cheap lace. And as for style, cut, line you can tell a Horn & Udell child from among a flock of thirty.
My word! don't I wish Dickon and Phil an' Jane an' th' rest of 'em had what's here under their pinafores." "Why don't you take it to them?" suggested Mary. "It's not mine," answered Martha stoutly. "An' this isn't my day out. I get my day out once a month same as th' rest. Then I go home an' clean up for mother an' give her a day's rest."
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