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As she waited for an opening her attention was attracted by the singular antics of a large man, who seemed to be performing some kind of a ponderous fling upon the curbstone opposite. A moment more and she grasped that the dance was a signal to her, and that the man was none other than McEwan, sprucely tailored and trimmed in the American fashion, but unmistakable for all that.
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Lorraine had seen anemic young men all her life, and the last three years had made her perfectly familiar with that look in a young man's eyes. She met it with impatient disfavor founded chiefly upon the young man's need of a decent hair-cut, a less flowery tie and a tailored suit. When he confessed that he did not know Mr.
And that night of Cinderella you were so heavenly." It was a good thing that Miss Emily came in at that moment for his eloquence was a burning flood, and Jean was swept up and on with it. The entrance of Emily, strictly tailored and practical, gave them pause. "You remember Mr. Drake, don't you, Emily?" Emily did, of course. But she had not expected to see him here. She held out her hand.
"'Them's a mighty slick outfit of habiliments you have got on, Mr. Man, says he. 'I'll bet a hoss you never acquired the right, title, and interest in and to them clothes in Atascosa City. "'Why, no, says I, being ready enough to exchange personalities with this moneyed monument of melancholy. 'I had this suit tailored from a special line of coatericks, vestures, and pantings in St. Louis.
And Northern-manufactured goods filtered south by the wagonload. Many of the Mosby men wore Confederate uniforms that had been tailored for them in Baltimore and even in Washington and run through the Union lines.
This attractive phase of her personality was uppermost as she sought in the trunk for something to wear, and a smile curved the corners of her straight lips and brought out a faint cleft in her square chin, as she inspected its contents. She found what she wanted in a plain cloth skirt and a white tailored waist with stiffly starched cuffs, and a man's sleeve links.
Seem t' like it better'n where they come from. I dunno." Hosey Brewster took to eying them as Mrs. Brewster had eyed the women. He wondered about them, these tight, trim men, rather short of breath, buttoned so snugly into their shining shoes and their tailored clothes, with their necks bulging in a fold of fat above the back of their white linen collar. He knew that he would never be like them.
There flooded upon him now the forceful truth of what Ransom had said. His work, as he had begun it, was at an end, his fabric of idealism had fallen into ruins. For he had found all that was ideal love, faith, purity, and beauty and he, Roscoe Cummins, the idealist, had repulsed them because they were not dressed in the tailored fashion of his kind.
Though he had no longer any communication with the good old Doctor, Amy frequently wrote to him, and in one of her letters she begged him to call on a family in London, one of whose younger members lived at Greystone and was Amy's friend. After much delay, he overcame his bashfulness, and called upon the worthy people tailored as became a gentleman at large.
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