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Updated: June 5, 2025
Their uniform consisted of white trousers, blue cloth spencers, with red facings, good shoes, and fez. As soon as I was in some degree recovered from the fatigue of my late journey, I requested my amiable host to furnish me with a servant who should conduct me to the ruins of Nineveh; but instead of a servant, the sister of Mrs. Rassam and a Mr. Ross accompanied me.
The poor-mistress commented upon the saying in the midst of her numerous family that night: "She's got that selfish, tempery woman saddled onto her for life, and she'll work her fingers to the bone for them boys, that ain't anything to her, and won't be apt to amount to much, for there never was one of them Spencers that did, and she calls that the kingdom of heaven!"
Deep in her heart she thought the old original Spencers had done more for the world than any leaders of fashion who ever lived; and when she read or thought of those who had made America, her mind never went to smart society and its doings, but to those great, simple souls who had braved the wilderness in search of liberty and adventure who had toiled, and fought, and given their lives, unknown, unsung, but never in Mary's mind to be forgotten.
"Why, Marjorie Maynard?" exclaimed the doctor, "are you here? Well, this is a pretty kettle of fish!" Although the Spencers had never seen Doctor Mendel before, he was the Maynards' family physician, and he realized at once the great misfortune of Marjorie's presence in the infected house. "Yes, I'm here," said Midget; "can't I go home?"
A few ladies of middle age move noiselessly along the pavement, returning home to tea: they wear white muslin dresses, green spencers a little faded, straw poke bonnets with green or coffee-coloured gauze veils. By twos and threes they have disappeared within the thresholds of small neat houses, with little railings, inclosing little green plots.
"I want you to know right away, as Marion's clergyman, and ours," she had said, and had given her jaw a particularly vicious wag and twist. "Of course it is not announced I don't believe even the Spencers know it yet. I am only telling you now because I know how dearly" she did it again "how dearly interested you are in all your spiritual children. Marion is engaged to Graham Spencer."
Moving diagonally to the left, he reached the crest overlooking the river just in time to surprise Kershaw in the act of crossing. The Fifth Michigan deployed into line in fine style and opened such a hot fire with their Spencers, that the head of Kershaw's column was completely crushed. Every confederate who was across was either killed or captured.
But the beautiful faces which are said to beam forth from among those golden locks exist only in the poet's vivid imagination. Ornamental additions to the costume are very rare. In the whole assembly I only noticed four women who were dressed differently from the others. The cords which fastened their spencers, and also their girdles, were ornamented with a garland worked in silver thread.
The first announcement of such a suit in the newspapers might reach the Spencers; and if the young man were, as he doubted not, Sidney Beaufort, would necessarily bring him forward, and ensure the dreaded explanation.
"Yours truly, "P. S. I shall keep a constant eye on the Spencers. "Burn this immediately." After he had written and sealed this letter, Mr. Beaufort went to bed and slept soundly. And the next day that place was desolate, and the board on the lawn announced that it was again to be let.
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