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And wasn't she patched! and hadn't she powdered her hair, and made it as stiff with pomatum as if it had been starched! Then on the top of this head went a lace cap it was not a hood just a little, light, fly-away cap, with purple ribbons and gold embroidery, and in the middle of the front a big gold pompoon. What a contrast there was between her and my Aunt Kezia!
"Are you sure, then," said Cecilia, with a laugh, "that sorrow has but that one source?" "By no means," answered he, "for perhaps papa may have been angry, or mama may have been cross; a milliner may have sent a wrong pompoon, or a chaperon to an assembly may have been taken ill " "Bitter subjects of affliction, indeed! And are these all you allow us?"
So down we sat, and Cecilia pulled her sacque carefully on one side, that it should not get spoiled she was very charmingly dressed in a sacque of purple lutestring, with such a pretty bonnet, of red velvet with a gold pompoon in front and then she began to talk, as if she had come for that, and I believe she had. It was not long before I felt pretty sure that she had brought me there to pump me.
I find hoops are all the mode again, and very large indeed so big that when you enter a door you have to double your hoop round in front, or lift it on one side out of the way. The cap is a little scrap of a thing, scarce bigger than a crown-piece, and a flower or pompoon is stuck at the side; stomachers are worn, and very full elbow-ruffles; velvet slippers with high heels.
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