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Updated: June 11, 2025
The girls spent weary hours turning, twisting, pleating in, letting out, tacking, and untacking, until at length Peggy's long- worn patience gave way altogether, and she vowed that not once again should the blouse go on her back until she donned it for the evening's exhibition. "If they are not right this way, they will have to be wrong! I can't waste all my life fussing over a pair of sleeves.
Go along like a nice child." In her room a woman with a flat worn face and a dusty wisp of hair across her neck was spreading underlinen, ironed into beautiful narrow wisps of pleating, in a drawer. It was Hodie, a Methodist, the only one Laurel knew, and the latter was always entranced by the servant's religious exclamations, doubts and audible prayers.
She had her apron in her hand and was kind of pleating it. COUNTY ATTORNEY: And how did she look? HALE: Well, she looked queer. COUNTY ATTORNEY: How do you mean queer? HALE: Well, as if she didn't know what she was going to do next. And kind of done up. COUNTY ATTORNEY: How did she seem to feel about your coming? HALE: Why, I don't think she minded one way or other. She didn't pay much attention.
Esmeralda fell at once to pleating her table-napkin into one shape after another, Mademoiselle smiled over a happy inspiration, whereupon wily Pat put on his most angelic look and asked "Will you dress me, Mademoiselle? A man's no good at this sort of thing. You can't fasten sheets with screws, and I'm no hand at fancy stitching.
I said, 'How do, Mrs Wright it's cold, ain't it? And she said, 'Is it? and went on kind of pleating at her apron. Well, I was surprised; she didn't ask me to come up to the stove, or to set down, but just sat there, not even looking at me, so I said, 'I want to see John. And then she laughed. I guess you would call it a laugh.
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