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Updated: May 9, 2025
Some of our good, motherly, village faces, with their expressions of homely dignity and Christian decorousness, looking at us from under that jaunty English walking-hat, in lieu of their sober bonnets, presented themselves to our imaginations, and filled us with amusement and consternation. "Only think how Mrs. Sim White would look," Louisa said after Mrs. Jameson had gone, and we both saw Mrs.
But as the Yankees stole my bonnet, I am reduced to wearing my black straw walking-hat with its curled brim, trimmed in black ribbon with golden sheaves of wheat. Two years ago this fall, father threw me a banknote at table, and I purchased this with it. Now it is my only headgear, except a sunbonnet.
Alexander said she might use her riding-hat for the sake of economy, but she had decided on a tweed walking-hat, which could be taken off very quickly in the court-room. For, whatever she might do in church, it was now impossible for her to remain covered before the bench of judges. Mrs.
The colonel had plucked his sister's walking-hat, a pert piece of millinery froward in feathers, from the trunk of the headless Victory, where she had reposed it in her haste before dinner. "Mustn't be disrespectful to the household Lar," he kindly reminded her. "Where am I to put my hats, then? I shall wear them on my head and come down to breakfast in them.
Nobody but such a cloistered, academic spinster as she would have trusted a seven years' promise. This was another result of such lives as they led such helpless, provincial women. Her resentment grew against the place. It had made her a fool. It was Sunday afternoon, and she had omitted, in deference to the day, the short skirt and walking-hat of her weekday stroll.
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