starting-out

Updated: June 2, 2025

It is superb; and she told me where lace just like it could be bought one-third less than they sell at Stewart's." Thus we see how the starting-out of an old, respectable family in any new ebullition of fancy and fashion is like a dandelion going to seed.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Pink and White Tyranny: A Society Novel