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Sadie always knew what they were wearing on State Street, Chicago, half an hour after Mrs. Brandeis returned from one of her buying trips. Shirtwaists had just come in, and with them those neat leather belts with a buckle, and about the throat they were wearing folds of white satin ribbon, smooth and high and tight, the two ends tied pertly at the back.
But privately, I think it was due to the way she wore her shirtwaists.
Margaret never wore shirtwaists, she understood that she was too short unless she combined a white skirt with a waist. Margaret would have broken a commandment with less hesitation than she would have broken the line of her graceful little figure with two violently contrasting colours. Mrs.
"You sure are some nervy." "'Cheer up! I always say to myself when a firm closes the front door on me: 'Cheer up; there's always the back door and the fire-escape left. That's how I made my rep in shirtwaists on nerve." He inclined to her slightly across the car-seat. "You wouldn't close the front door on me, would you, Miss Miriam?" "Look, we get off here!" "Would you?" "N-no, silly."
He was conscious too of the home-made suit and the cheap shirtwaists, with the pathetic attempt at variety through different colored neckties. Little by little he recognized that the bashful young person had a mental background not shared by her mates, and he wondered about her. It was early in January that he made an attempt to satisfy his curiosity.
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