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Updated: June 17, 2025
There was a mingling of strange sounds now, as, following the motion of the vessel as she rolled heavily, everything below that was loose dashed from side to side of the cabins; but still the doctor paid no more heed. He retrimmed the lamp from time to time, and tried to retrim the lamp of Carey Cranford's young life; but it seemed to be all in vain.
Her hat had been carried off and retrimmed, her white gloves, her dainty parasol, the bunch of roses at her belt everything had been thought for; she had been allowed a voice in nothing. And the result was extraordinary.
The whole week preceding the day there is heard everywhere the whir of sewing machines. New dresses are feverishly cut and made; old ones ripped and remade. Hats are bought, old ones are retrimmed. Buggies are repainted and baby carriages oiled.
He noted their shabby dresses, made over, mended, trimmed, and retrimmed, to make them look like new; he noted their broken shoes and once more he put his hand in his pocket. "Vice may reign here," he said to himself, "but the faces, the furniture, all show that this is the wreck of a respectable family.
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