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Updated: June 1, 2025
Indeed, it had been more than a failure, because we were worse off after we had washed our clothes than we were before. Before we had washed them, they had been very, very dirty, it is true; but they were just wearable. AFTER we had washed them well, the river between Reading and Henley was much cleaner, after we had washed our clothes in it, than it was before.
We return to our former assertion that it is the make which renders a common material wearable in any, even the very best society. It requires, of course, a knowledge of the prevailing fashion, which may easily be arrived at by the simple process of taking in "Le Follet," or some good monthly publication on fashions.
The average annual cost of stamps has been L5 4s.; clothing and boots, L4 12s. The "youthful hose, well kept," with other everlasting drapery brought from civilisation, is still wearable.
Again her work was bundled into the cupboard, the poor flimsy pattern further suffering. But beyond a casual wonder if the garment would eventually be wearable, cut from so mangled a pattern, she had no real care. Her smiling eyes turned readily upon the newcomer the moment her secret labors had been hidden from prying male eyes.
"And thieves, sir, cannot always be choosers, can they?" "Then you admit you are a thief?" Here the fugitive glanced at Barnabas with a wry smile. "Sir, I fear I must. Exchange is no robbery they say; but my rags were so very ragged, and these garments are at least wearable." "You have also been a great valet, I understand?" "And have served many gentlemen in my time."
'We are both going to try to be good, mother dear! faltered Francis. The poor woman pressed her handkerchief with both hands to her face, and wept for a few moments in silence, then rose and left the room. In an hour she was ready, and out looking for Francis. Her habit was a little too tight for her, but wearable enough. The horses were sent for, and they mounted.
Alluding, once, to the "hard money" cry, by which the lying politicians of the day carried elections, he exploded that nonsense in two lines: "If a man gets the wearable or the eatable he wants, what cares he whether he has gold or paper-money?" He devoted two sentences to the Old School and New School Presbyterian controversy: "Great trouble among the Presbyterians just now.
Sanda believed there would be tender romance for him, as for her, in the thought of the marriage near Touggourt, where his love had come to him from half across the world. Not a rap did the girl care for the hardships in front of her. She laughed and thought it a great adventure that she had no "trousseau," but only the few clothes which were wearable after her long visit to Djazerta.
"I know my great-grandfather's name was Humphrey," answered Lenox, "and the dates would seem to correspond." Diana's clothes were dried at last, and brushed. Even her hat, by the aid of a fishing-rod, had been recovered from the moat. Though rather crushed and spoilt they were quite wearable. She felt herself again when she had put them on. Mrs.
Before embarking for the last run, this morning, we made a neat heap on the beach, of such of our stores, edible and wearable, as had been requisite to the trip, but were not worth the cost of sending home.
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