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The little figures were clothed in long white night-dresses, for they were just going to bed, but they could not miss such a song. I am sure that if it could have been interpreted it would have proved to be a chant of joy and praise. The nest was completed, the home was ready!
She used to put the book away until they were safe in bed, and then gratify her curiosity; but they suspected her, because once or twice they noticed that she was unaffected by an exciting part; so one night they came down in their night-dresses and caught her, and after that the poor lady had to be careful.
She thought it must be Pierrefitte's best man. Wasn't it hellish of me? I knew quite well you'd done it beautifully." The maid said nothing, but a tear fell on one of Kitty's night-dresses. "And you remember the green garibaldi last week? I just loathed it because you'd forgotten that little black rosette." "No!" said Blanche, looking up; "your ladyship had never ordered it." "I did I did!
"Isn't there a dress there?" I exclaimed, in alarm. "No not a day-dress." "Night-dresses!" I shrieked. "He doesn't want women's night-dresses! He's a bachelor! Good Heavens! I've done it this time!" "But but who is to wear them?" she asked. "How do I know? I don't know anything; I can only presume that he doesn't intend to open a department store in the Everglades.
When the doctor returned with Mr. Gray, the patient, dry and clean, was wrapped in the soft blankets of Mother Gray's own bed, with one of Maggie's old night-dresses on, and hot bricks at her tired feet. But warmth and kindness had come too late.
The women-servants, who were to be seen in their night-dresses scuttling wildly about when the crash of the explosion first shook them up had now altogether disappeared, and were in all probability steadily engaged in putting things to rights wherever they could, and no one yet knew the number of the dead. Ericson and Helena got down to the hall. The girl was happy.
"Of course, by this time they had collected a crowd around them, for just imagine what they looked like! Nothing on but white night-dresses I mean, of course, that were originally white, but now spattered a foot deep with muddy water, and stained all over with crushed strawberries; and they were barefooted, with their golden curls stuck full of burs, till they looked like little porcupines."
Two were wrapped in Vandover's travelling-rug and a couple of men had put their coats around the third. But there were not wraps enough to go around among the women, by far the larger part of them were covered only by their night-dresses or their bed-gowns. It was abominably cold; the rain fell continually, and the wind blew in long gusts, piercing, cutting.
Garie declared that she felt very much fatigued and slightly indisposed, and thought the sooner she retired the better it would be for her. She accordingly went up to the room, which she had already seen and greatly admired, and was soon in the land of dreams. As is always the case on such occasions, the children's night-dresses could not be found.
Shirts 15 cents, night ditto 10 cents, vests and pants 25 to 50 cents, blankets 50 cents, counterpanes 35 cents, table-cloths 15 to 35 cents, sheets 10 cents, pillow-slips 5 to 15 cents, night-dresses 15 cents to 1 dollar, petticoats 30 cents to 1 dollar, etc., everything in proportion. We get 4 dollars 80 cents only for the sovereign here, being tenpence short of the five dollars. May 28th.
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