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Updated: June 15, 2025
"'Peaches, I said to my wife, 'I'm doing this to please you, but after I pay the check, it's me to file a petition in bankruptcy. "But she only grinned, picked up the point-lace napkin and began to admire the onyx furniture. "'Que souhaitez vous? said the waiter, bowing so low that I could feel a chill running through my little bank account.
'How you have rumpled me, Owen? did you ever see such a thing, Miss Simpson? she cried, half laughing, half in tears, as she smoothed down the point-lace sleeves and collar.
Of all her brothers and sisters, her eldest brother, Patrick, was her closest friend, and, when he became one of the Prince of Orange's Guards, Grisell had extra labours, for the Guards wore little point-lace cravats and cuffs, and many a night she sat up to have these in such perfect order that no dandy officer in the service could compete with the young Scottish soldier.
I directed my mantua-maker to let my dress be elegant, but plain as I could possibly appear with decency. Accordingly, it is white lutestring, covered and full-trimmed with white crape, festooned with lilac ribbon and mock point-lace, over a hoop of enormous size.
"Well, they are in great trouble; all their stores destroyed, and their father killed, cut in two by a hoe." "How very shocking! I don't like to hear of such disagreeable things, it affects my nerves terribly. Well, I'm sure I haven't anything to give. Mamma said yesterday she was sure she didn't know how our bills were to be paid, and there's my green satin with point-lace yet to come home."
The eldest said, "I shall wear my crimson-velvet dress, and point-lace;" and the younger, "I shall put on my usual dress-petticoat, a mantle embroidered with gold flowers, and a tiara of diamonds." They sent to engage the services of the most fashionable hairdresser.
Now what is in finer unison, this old point-lace, all tags and tangle and fibrous and bewildering, and this amber, to which Heaven knows how many centuries, maybe, with all their changes, brought perpetual particles of increase? I like yellow things, you see. To begin at the beginning. My name, you're aware, is Giorgione Willoughby. Queer name for a girl!
The wine poured in a red stream from his point-lace cravat, but had not touched his face. "There shall be something redder than Burgundy spilt before we have done!" he said. "Sacre nom, nous sommes tombes dans un antre de betes sauvages!" exclaimed Masaroon, starting up, and anxiously examining the skirts of his brocade coat, lest that sudden deluge had caught him.
Their embroidered vests, their costly silks and satins, their emerald and diamond buckles, their point-lace ruffles, their rare furs, their jewelled rapiers, and their perfumed handkerchiefs were peculiar to themselves, for in those days wealthy shopkeepers, and even the daughters of prosperous notaries, could ill afford such luxuries, and were scarcely allowed to shine in them if they would.
Malcolm placed him, helpless as an infant, in a corner of the silken-padded coach, fitted with cushions especially suited for his comfort. There he sat, in his black velvet coat and point-lace collar, with silk stockings and dainty shoes upon the poor little feet that never had walked, and never would walk, in this world.
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