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Updated: May 5, 2025
We went to school, and in our dainty befrilled pinafores and light shoes were regarded as great swells by the other scholars. They for the most part were the children of very poor farmers, whose farm earnings were augmented by road-work, wood-carting, or any such labour which came within their grasp. All the boys went barefooted, also a moiety of the girls.
When we entered, a Sabbath-like calm hung upon the town; officers in the smartest khaki and glistening Stowassers observed us askance, little girls in white pinafores passed us with eyes cast down, a man on a bicycle looked up, and then, in terror lest we might speak to him, glued his eyes to the wheel and "scorched" rapidly.
For it was himself, dwarfed to babyhood and pinafores. His eyes, his prominent brow, his colour, his trick of holding the head they were all there, absurdly there. He gave a cry, which was answered by another cry from behind. His wife stood in the door. The stout, foolish Isabella was white to the lips. Even she felt the awe, the poetry of the moment. 'Aye, she said, trembling. 'Aye! it's yourn.
She read and sewed now, having no heart for jaunting about; and as she made the long neglected white pinafores, for Rosy, she thought much of the little girl who might never live to wear them. Meantime the fever took its course, and came at last to the fateful day when a few hours would settle the question of life or death.
She was simply going over it again, finding out the tones and meanings which, in the haste and excitement of their occurrence, did not have their full force. The fulness of detail that lingers about such pictures, which are not half apprehended till they have been gone over again and again, is marvellous. The pinafores went unconsciously through Nettie's fingers.
Chat of this sort went on briskly while fans waved, programs rustled, and ushers flew about distractedly, till an important gentleman appeared, made his bow, skipped upon the leader's stand, and with a wave of his baton caused a general uprising of white pinafores as the orphans led off with that much-enduring melody "America" in shrill small voices, but with creditable attention to time and tune.
Don't you think a boy that takes that kind of medicine, without making up a face, ought to say, 'Thank you, ever so much, and always wear pinafores, and stay in the kindergarten, and if he ever grows up and goes into business he better become a he-milliner, or a manicure, say?
"Yes. Sit down." Dick obeyed. "Dick, I believe you are the only person in the world who has any control over your father." "Yes. Even in my pinafores I learnt the great lesson that to control one's parents is the first duty of the modern child." "Don't be silly," his aunt rejoined sharply. Then she looked him over.
Helena glanced at Siegmund, and her eyes were shining with pity. He was watching the kitten and smiling. 'Crying because things are too big, and it can't take them in, he said. 'But look how frightened it is, she said. 'So am I. He laughed. 'And if there are any gods looking on and laughing at me, at least they won't be kind enough to put me in their pinafores.... She laughed very quickly.
"I used to try and make up my mind you would marry Charlotte when she grew up," she said dreamily. "How ingenious of you. Unfortunately, it was my mind, not yours, that was concerned, and that had been made up when Charlotte was in pinafores. Now come and talk business, dear."
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