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Updated: May 13, 2025
Frank six feet of him, without reckoning a slight stoop always satisfied the eye; his grey flannel suit fitted loosely but fitted well; his wide-brimmed straw hat was as faultless as his linen; his necktie had a negligent neatness; you felt sure alike and at once of his bootmaker and his shirtmaker; and his fresh complexion, his prematurely white hair, his strong well-kept hands, completed the impression of cleanliness for its own sake, of a careful physical cult as far as possible removed from foppery.
"I am speaking of the people that are not seen, like the tailoress and shirtmaker, in your drum-and-trumpet State." "Well, you may be right," said George, drily. "But I confess if I may be quite frank that I don't altogether trust you to judge.
Big Pete was an expert backwoods tailor, shoemaker and shirtmaker, but these were but few of his accomplishments, not his trade; he was first, last and aways a hunter and scout. No matter what occupation seemed to engage his attention for the time it never interfered with his ability to hear, see or smell.
She is a shirtmaker; she has four children, and her husband is a docker out of work. She had sewed herself sick and blind. She couldn't eat, and she couldn't sleep. But she had kept the children alive and the man. Her life will flicker out in a month or two; but the children's lives will have taken root, and the man will be eating and earning again.
It was touching to see that girl, Lady Madeleine, looking at the docker or the shirtmaker, with her restless greenish eyes, as though she realised for the first time what hideous bond it is the one true commonalty that crushes the human family together! Well! and what had he seen? Nothing, certainly, of which he had not had ample information before.
The sewing-girl, like Hood's shirtmaker, scarcely fears the 'phantom of grisly bone. Poor Francine! where have you taken your artisanne's cap to, I wonder? Are you left alone, all alone again, and thinking of the pretty solitude you have left behind you at Carlsruhe? Who uses those polished keys now?"
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