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'Never mind. And suppose you can't get the shape, Grace. 'Yes? 'Bring some evening cloaks the kimonoish kind I could wear one over a lace blouse; it would look exactly the same. 'Edith, what curious ideas you have! But you're right enough. Anything else? said Miss Bennett, standing up, ready to go. 'I like shopping for you. You know what you want.
"How did she look?" "Splendid. She was with one of her euchre friends, so I didn't have the chance for an old-time chat, but she made me promise to come and see her, and 'pon my word, just as young and pretty as you please, with a fine face veil and a purple feather boa and shopping out of the Busy Bee bins just the way she used to do." "She looked happy?" "Indeed she did!
The modistes upon going out from their establishments, and the ladies returning from shopping, were crossing through the square in order to shorten their walk. The little avenue was a popular short-cut.
She took no interest in anything, was melancholy and depressed unless some officer sitting by the big samovar noticed her and paid her compliments; she was often absent, sometimes in the town shopping, sometimes at the mistress's house, which was only three miles from the inn. There she felt at home, there she was surrounded by her own people; the girls envied her finery.
We can get hold of a steam yacht with four cannon toys, but fit for work only you'll have to buy, not hire " He stopped short, a look passing between him and Virginia, quick as a flash of light, yet not too quick to be seen by Kate. "Good!" said the girl. "Well, we'll talk about it as we walk. Kate's going shopping."
Evelyn and her son and daughter fell into the habit of coming, when they went out for a drive, to see whether Mrs. Brownlow or Barbara would come with them; and as it was almost avowed that Babie was the object, she almost always went, and kept Fordham company in the carriage, whilst his mother and sister were shopping or making calls.
Any one of the fashionable houses to which ladies habitually resort without male protection, for a noonday lunch when shopping, may serve as a type of all the rest; and not one of them but may be passed with a shudder, by husbands who wish their wives to remain like Cesar's, not only chaste but above suspicion, and by fathers who do not desire the peach-bloom too early rubbed off from the innocence of their fair daughters.
My shopping tour was ended by three o'clock and I spent the remainder of the afternoon at a bookseller's. There was a set of "Early English Poets" there, nineteen little, fat, chunky volumes, not new and shiny and grand, but middle-aged and shabby and comfortable, which appealed to me. The price, however, was high; I had the uneasy feeling that I ought not to afford it.
He rode into town three or four times every week; got the news of the clubs and the streets; loitered about Maiden Lane and the shopping district; and when disappointed and vexed at events went to his Grandmother Van Heemskirk for sympathy. For, as yet, he hesitated about naming Cornelia to his mother.
Georgiana found herself involved in a round of final shopping and hurried luncheons, while Rosalie talked incessantly, Mrs. Crofton argued maternally, and the bride-elect herself turned to Georgiana as the one person with the exception of her father who understood her.
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