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Updated: July 24, 2025
Do you know, when I think of the jaded Interesting People I've met Why do I leave you to be spoiled by some shop-girl in a flowered hat? She'd drag you to moving-picture shows.... Oh! You didn't tell me that you went to moving pictures, did you?" "No!" he lied, fervently, then, feeling guilty, "I used to, but no more." "It shall go to the nice moving pictures if it wants to! It shall take me, too.
She is clothed in a badly-fitting purple dress, and her hat plume is four inches too long; but her ermine muff and scarf cost $25, and its fellow beasts will be ticketed in the windows at $7.98 before the season is over. Her cheeks are pink, and her light blue eyes bright. Contentment radiates from her. Nancy you would call a shop-girl because you have the habit.
Here is a white-frocked butcher selecting a full-blown pot of pansies, and here a sad-faced woman, in widow's weeds, takes away a wreath of immortelles to-night it will deck a tomb in the cemetery of Père la Chaise. This giddy and nervous fellow, who is full of smiles, takes away a wedding wreath price is no object to him. Yonder is a pale-faced shop-girl what sunny yet half-sad features she has!
In her legitimate pride, she still retained the modest dress of her girlhood and wore the coquettish little cap of the shop-girl; and Providence, no doubt, rewarded her for her modesty, for she looked bewitchingly fresh and pretty beneath the lace head-gear, with its knots of pale blue ribbon, as she smiled sweetly on the blond rosy child at her side.
Lucy had been engaged the while with the children, and when the two married ladies entered, they found that a shop had been opened at which all manner of luxuries were being readily sold and purchased at marvellously easy prices; the guava jelly was there, and the oranges, and the sugar-plums, red and yellow and striped; and, moreover, the gingerbread had been taken down in the audacity of their commercial speculations, and the nuts were spread out upon a board, behind which Lucy stood as shop-girl, disposing of them for kisses.
Why, every shop-girl who commits suicide is immortalized in the daily press as 'a leading society girl, and every deceased Tom, Dick, or Harry has become a 'well-known club man. It has added a new terror to death. Thank God, my friends will be spared!" Harrington felt of his chin. "You object to the promiscuity of it, so to speak. It's because everybody is included?"
Once he was sworn at; once the whisper, "If only it could always be like this!" sent the blood flying again from his heart, and he waited there, patient and dogged, for the two to move. But it was only a poor thin slip of a shop-girl in her draggled blouse who passed him, clinging to her lover's arm.
To them nor to no one else, however, has he told, even as I have done, the story of the frail shop-girl, who from being young and handsome, and the belle of her circle of acquaintances, became a wretched and deceitful woman, diseased both in body and mind, and finally sank into a premature grave. Out on this heartless, brutal system, and the thoughtlessness and ignorance which permit it!
Thornburgh was left protesting to the vicar's incredulous ears that never never as long as she lived would she have Mrs. Seaton inside her doors again. 'Her manners' cried the vicar's wife, fuming-'her manners would disgrace a Whinborough shop-girl. She has none-positively none! Then suddenly her round, comfortable face brightened and broadened out into a beaming smile
And so, despite their bourgeois bearing, their modest costumes and their expressionless shop-girl smiles, all those women, made up their little mouths to be caught by the hook of sentiment, and cast languishing glances upon the singer.
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