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Updated: June 14, 2025
It had a brick floor, and a window of diamond panes, and a flounce hanging below the chimney-piece, and strings nailed from bottom to top outside the window on which scarlet-beans were to grow in the coming season if the Fates were propitious.
To be sure, on Sundays she came out in a black silk gown with a little flounce at the bottom, a scarlet crape shawl with a blue dragon on it his wings over her back, and a claw over each shoulder, so that whoever sat behind her in church was terribly distracted by trying to see the rest of him and a very big yellow Tuscan bonnet, trimmed with sailor's blue ribbon.
She vented petulant words every now and then, but there were sighs between her words, and sudden listenings between her sighs. Descending from her perch she again sauntered off towards Rainbarrow, though this time she did not go the whole way. Twice she reappeared at intervals of a few minutes and each time she said "Not any flounce into the pond yet, little man?"
Well, it has been precisely in the matter of cotton gowns that I have been punished for my vanity. For a day or two each gown in turn looked charming. Then came a flounce or bordering of bright red earth on the lower skirt and a general impression of red dust and dirt all over it. That was after a drive into Maritzburg along a road ploughed up by ox-wagons. Still, I felt no uneasiness.
He returned to his nephew's house with a very comfortable opinion of his own sagacity. He was met by his wife with a penitent face. 'Oh, master, I've found my brooch! It was just sticking by its pin in the flounce of my brown silk, that I wore yesterday. I took it off in a hurry, and it must have caught in it; and I hung up my gown in the closet.
I took a young lady skating, and slipped down with her on the ice, and broke her Grecian nose. I went to a grand reception, and tore the point lace flounce off of Mrs. Grant's train, put my handkerchief in my saucer, and my coffee-cup in my pocket.
'Tis about a witch, Drowned in a ditch, Your tears come from your EYES. If you are wise, Don't make a BOUNCE, Or you'll tear your flounce, And upset the sugar JAR, Which I cannot spare, I must give some to FRANCIS, So well he dances; Sugar canes packed up in LEAVES, The canes are tied up like wheat sheaves; Francis wears a scarlet JACKET, He made a dreadful racket At HARROGATE, Because he had to wait, In a field of BARLEY, To hold a parley, About a bone of marrow; His heart was transfixed by an ARROW, By a lady in VELVET, And he was her pet.
In her course she brushed past our young man, and, catching a flounce on some one’s knee, slipped a little, and in her distraction supported herself on the shoulder of Thaddeus.
"Can you not take your handkerchief, your neckcloth, anything?" she cried; and at the same moment, from her light muslin gown she rent off a flounce and tossed it on the floor. "Take that," she said, and for the first time directly faced Greisengesang. But the Chancellor held up his hands and turned away his head in agony.
It was not a dress to be hurried with; every quill and gather of its trimming must be "set just so;" and there was still one flounce to be made, and these others were only basted, as also the corsage. After the hours were up that afternoon, Miss Tonker called Aunt Blin aside. She uncovered the large white box in which it lay, unfinished. "You have a nice room, Miss Bree.
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