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Preciosa, who somehow found it impossible to take the thing simply, was decked out to considerable effect; most of the other young women struck her as rather underdressed, and she wondered that they could seem so very much at home. Clearly, in their eyes, she was here for just this once; she would not occur again, and they need not bother Virgilia by asking reasons.
It would serve this lady right, Maisie gathered, if that contract, in the shape of an overgrown and underdressed daughter, should be shipped straight out to her and landed at her feet in the midst of scandalous excesses. The picture of these pursuits was what Miss Overmore took refuge in when the child tried timidly to ascertain if her father were disposed to feel he had too much of her.
He wore a blue serge suit a little underdressed for the occasion, perhaps; but his tie and collar were neat; his gold-rimmed spectacles if a little disapproved of by Maud on account of the air of steadiness which they imparted suggested excellent son-in-lawlike qualities to Mr. and Mrs. Barnes. He had the promise of a fair moustache, but his complexion generally was colourless.
"Better underdressed than overdressed, always, my dear, If there is any fault, it is on the right side." "I am glad you are pleased, aunt Helen." "Are you not better pleased with yourself?" was asked. "I can't just say that, aunt. I've worn this dress in company several times, and it's very plain."
You're always the same, Selina, underdressed when you think there's no one around to see you, and overdressed when there is." Selina poured herself out some coffee and yawned. "La, papa, what do you know about it?" she exclaimed. "What my eyes tell me," Mr. Bullsom declared, sternly. "You've no allowance to keep to. You've leave to spend what you want, and you're never fit to be seen.
People are not more crowded on a char-a-banc than they are at a political "At Home," or even an artistic soiree; and if the female trippers are overdressed, at least they are not overdressed and underdressed at the same time. It is better to ride a donkey than to be a donkey.
Anna was not late, but her heart sank within her when she entered the drawing-room. It was not a hopeful looking group. Two or three podgy-looking old men with wives to match, half-a-dozen overdressed girls, and a couple of underdressed American ones, who still wore the clothes in which they had been tramping half over London since breakfast time.
The flowers stayed there freshly watered till the petals strewed his table: they were not even dusted away. As for Harriet herself, the wound of the morning must have penetrated till it struck some deep flint in her composition; for she came back the next day in high spirits and severely underdressed in what might be called toilet reduced to its lowest terms, like a common fraction.
She felt as if Gail Maddox, with her brilliant, careless sentences, and her half-insolent confidence, owned everybody there much more than she did: and she felt little and underdressed and outclassed to a point where even Gail might pity her, and probably did.... And if there is a more abjectly awful feeling than that the Other Girl pities you, nobody has discovered it yet.... Gail might even know how much of a pretender she was.
Alice did not deign to reply, but tossed her head superbly, and secretly considered whether people would, on comparison, think her overdressed or Lydia underdressed. Lord Worthington thought they both looked their best, and reflected for several seconds on the different styles of different women, and how what would suit one would not do at all for another.
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