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Updated: June 23, 2025
But in the outer salon the talk was to the last degree shoppy, and overflowed with the argot of the studios.
The counter was pushed back now, as always after seven o'clock, for the people who came in the evening were few; and then, when that was out of the way, it seemed more home-like and less shoppy, as Mrs.
However, we let the fellow rattle on at his shoppy talk, and soon arrived at Mr Shoddy's ready-made clothes establishment. I felt rather like a criminal being brought up before a judge than a customer before the tailor of his patronage. "Good evening, Mr Batchelor," said the tailor. "Take a seat, sir." I did so, and Jack took another. A long pause ensued. "You wished to see me," observed I.
Mollie asked incredulously Grizzel looked so small and young to be a maker of real jam in shoppy tins. "Grizzel is a beautiful cook," said Prudence, with an air of great pride. "You wait till you taste her herring-shape, and her parsnip sauce. Mamma says that cooks are born, not made, and that Grizzel is born and I'm not made." Mollie felt an immense respect for Grizzel.
She was foreign to their ways of life and thought; in a word, they set her down as worldly and lacking in conviction. On her side, Phebe detested them heartily. Golf was a sealed book to them; their skirts were prone to hang in dejected folds; their talk, even in their hours of relaxation, was of the shop shoppy.
No! his statement of having been a shop-boy was the thing I liked best of all. 'I am surprised at you, Margaret, said her mother. 'You who were always accusing people of being shoppy at Helstone! I don't I think, Mr. Hale, you have done quite right in introducing such a person to us without telling us what he had been.
He mumbled something to the effect that he was sure his family would be "quite agreeable", and that his sister would give up her place in the carriage and go by train; and Deb, facing him with the air of a duchess, thought how thoroughly "shoppy" his manner was. His splendid new clothes helped to give her that impression.
'Are those the Gormans who made their fortunes in trade at Southampton? Oh! I'm glad we don't visit them. I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence. 'You must not be so fastidious, Margaret, dear! said her mother, secretly thinking of a young and handsome Mr. Gorman whom she had once met at Mr. Hume's. 'No!
I told her I loved her enough for a mother, anyway and the poor thing giggled." "Still, you have your lucid moments." "Ah, still thinking about the face? You mean I'm lucid when you smile, and daffy when you don't. But that's a case of it your face " "My face a case of what? You're getting commercial even shoppy. Really, if this continues, Mr. Linford, I shall be obliged "
Yes, you've taught me tongues and I'm greatly obliged to you they no doubt give variety as well as incoherency to my conversation; and that of people in our line is for the most part notoriously monotonous and shoppy. The gift of tongues is in general the sign of your true adventurer. Dear mamma, I've no low standard that's the last thing," Miriam went on.
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