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Ruskin would revel in it!" "Are you really going about in that thing?" asked Algitha. Hadria wished to know what was the use of designing a Gothic cathedral if one couldn't go about in it. The bonnet was, in truth, a daring caricature of the prevailing fashion, just sufficiently serious in expression to be wearable.
The only good hat, and wearable uniform coat, went round and round; it was a happy thing for this disconsolate seven that we were all nearly of a size. To aggravate our misfortunes, we could no longer get an occasional dinner, either in the captain's cabin or the ward-room, for our clothes were all in rags. In the meanwhile, Joshua Daunton grew more and more sleek, and pale, and fat.
'Ah, my pet, that's a very different kind of poverty from mine. You have never known what it is to have only three pairs of wearable stockings. Bessie looked as if she were going to cry. 'If you were not so disgustingly proud, you horrid thing, you need never feel the want of stockings, she said discontentedly.
To one inexpert in such matters it would have been hard to decide which was eatable and which wearable, and Richard observed the operation with a mixture of amusement and disgust. Having discovered her breakfast and selected a piece of rag to act as napkin, tablecloth, and subsequently a face towel, the old lady restored the remainder of her effects to the 'valise' and fell to.
Not a single article was wearable which had passed through the severe ordeal of being starched and ironed by Deborah, and what was still more lamentable, many of them could not even, like an antique painting or statue, be restored. "This is too bad," said George, as he contemplated his soiled and scorched linen.
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