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She positively refused to let the girl dress herself, and though she could not be her bridesmaid, had expressed her deliberate intention of being her strong support. She and Eve had worked together on the wedding dress, which was of simple white lawn. They had discussed together the trousseau, and made it.
Jahel," I exclaimed, "I am very unhappy; you have betrayed me, and you no longer love me." "Who says that I do not love you any more?" she asked, and looked at me with her velvety eyes of flame. "Alas! mademoiselle, your conduct shows it sufficiently." "But, Jacques, could you envy the trousseau of Dutch linen and the godroon plate that the gentleman is to present me with!
She wrote to him formal, monotonous, and dry letters, to which she attached no importance herself, and in the rough copies of which the countess corrected her mistakes in spelling. There was still no improvement in the countess' health, but it was impossible to defer the journey to Moscow any longer. Natasha's trousseau had to be ordered and the house sold.
"Inappropriate?" exclaimed Mrs. Dodd. "There is nothing here unfit for a bride's trousseau." "Good Heavens! Would you trick her out like a Princess?" "We must. We are too poor to dress her like a lady." "Cinderella; at your service," observed Julia complacently, and pirouetted before him in her new shawl. Ideas rejected peremptorily at the time often rankle, and bear fruit by-and-bye. Mrs.
Though Penelope galloped, Mademoiselle Cormon, absorbed in thoughts of her trousseau and the wedding-day, declared again and again that Jacquelin made no way at all. She twisted about in the carriole without replying to Josette's questions, and talked to herself like a person who is mentally revolving important designs.
When the train stopped for a minute or two you could hear a faint rattle and click from the direction of the smoking compartment where three jewelry salesmen from Providence, Rhode Island, were indulging in their beloved, but dangerous diversion of dice throwing. Just across the aisle was a woman, with her daughter, Chicago-bound to buy a trousseau.
"You I suppose you are not going to bother about a trousseau yet then?" he asked rather awkwardly. She shook her head with vehemence. "No, no, of course not. Why should I hurry? Besides, I am in mourning." "Exactly as you like," said Grange gently. "My leave will be up in September, as you know, but I am not bound to stay in the Army. I will send in my papers if you wish it."
Seven years afterwards, Duchess Leonora sent a magnificent doll with a trousseau of clothes designed by the best artists in Ferrara, as a gift to the little daughter-in-law whom she had not yet seen. In 1480, Lodovico Sforza formally asked Ercole to give him the hand of his elder daughter Isabella, then a child of six.
Too bad he was a noble. "Listen to this now," continued Lantier. "Here's some society news: 'A marriage is arranged between the eldest daughter of the Countess de Bretigny and the young Baron de Valancay, aide-de-camp to His Majesty. The wedding trousseau will contain more than three hundred thousand francs' worth of lace." "What's that to us?" interrupted Bibi-the-Smoker.
Oh, I've got my trousseau ready, every stitch of it, including hat, gloves, stockings, and what not." "You don't tell me well, that is news!" Henley exclaimed in surprise. "Well, it ain't to me," Dixie laughed. "You see, Alfred, it is the same old outfit that I laid in a year ago and keep in storage.
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