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She usually took out her shoestrings, not liking the trouble of tying them. A ruffle of fine lace fell around her throat, and the sleeves of her short-waisted dress were puffed at the shoulders. Her small white hands were folded in her lap, for she was idle; on the little finger of her left hand twinkled a brilliant garnet ring, set with diamonds.
It was evidently Miss Hathaway's treasure box, put away in the attic when spinsterhood was confirmed by the fleeting years. On top, folded carefully in a sheet, was a gown of white brocade, short-waisted and quaint, trimmed with pearl passementerie. The neck was square, cut modestly low, and filled in with lace of a delicate, frosty pattern Point d'Alencon.
On the line of march the unfortunate marines wore pigtails and cocked hats; stocks and cross-belts; tight-fitting, short-waisted red coats, and knee- breeches with boots or spatter-dashes even the stout Lord Clyde in his latest days used to recall the miseries of his march to Margate, and declare that the horrid dress gave him more pain than anything he afterwards endured in a life-time of marching.
And Anne's heart grew soft over the many little vests, and the jackets, and the diminutive short-waisted gowns. She was busy with a pile of such things one evening up in her bedroom when Majendie came in. The bed was strewn with the absurd garments, and Anne sat beside side it, sorting them, and smiling to herself that small, pure, shy smile of hers. Her soft face drew him to her.
'Oh, it's you Chrissy, she said in her pleasant way; 'come in child; don't you want to see something pretty? And she showed me two elegant brocaded silk gowns, very narrow and very short-waisted, but stiff enough to stand alone. "She praised my work and said I was a good girl. Then she paid me the money and tied a little blue silk handkerchief around my neck for a keepsake.
She welcomed them warmly, and invited them into the grand old hall with its white staircase and mahogany rail. Modern children seemed almost out of place in this old-time house. "I always seem to think you need short-waisted frocks, and drooping hats like Sir Joshua Reynolds's, and the Gainsborough pictures," said their mother laughing. "O may we go up to the attic and dress up?" begged Ethelwyn.
The blouse, showing through the little short-waisted coat home-made that, seen at a glance. The hat, with its quite artistic and unobtrusive colours self-trimmed the frame-work a year behind the fashion. The gloves, no holes in them, but well-worn. The skirt not badly cut, but obviously a cheap material. The person, herself more than probably a milliner's assistant.
It is true that the sleeves of his coat were not quite long enough, and the coat itself seemed short-waisted, and his trousers were not wide and fashionable, but his tie was tied carelessly and with taste and was not as gaudy as the others'. And he seemed to be a good-natured man, for he ate submissively whatever Auntie put on his plate.
"Mind, Annette, I hope you have not played a wicked trick on me," she added, turning to her hostess. "You wrote that it was to be quite a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed." And she spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast.
Consequently, the kitchen-maid is liable to frequent change. At the beginning of 1845 Celestine engaged as kitchen-maid a sturdy Normandy peasant come from Isigny short-waisted, with strong red arms, a common face, as dull as an "occasional piece" at the play, and hardly to be persuaded out of wearing the classical linen cap peculiar to the women of Lower Normandy.
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