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In Puritan days the laws could hardly be made severe enough to prevent men from wearing silver-lace and "broad bone-lace," and shoulder-bands of undue width, and double ruffs and "immoderate great breeches." What seemed to the Cavaliers the extreme of stupid sobriety in dress would pass now for the most fantastic array.
A host of gold-bespangled footmen lined the entrance upon each side, which was ornamented with the most exquisite hot-house plants, filling the air with perfume. Two tall, stately footmen, with broad gold shoulder-bands and large gilt batons, stood at the door of the anteroom, which was brilliantly illuminated with chandeliers and side-lights, reflected in the numerous mirrors.
To conform with this ostentatious custom Macko and Zbyszko took with them those excellent suits of armor and shoulder-bands won from the conquered Fryzjan knights, bright, shining and ornamented on the edges with a gold band.
They were all to be feather-stitched around the shoulder-bands and upper edges of the waist-bands, three buttons sewed on, and three buttonholes made in each. This was to be done for 2-1/2 cents a piece a quarter a dozen. In the morning after she had completed this work, Elena felt so nervous and ill when she went to the factory, that as she handed Mrs.
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