And you wish that I should make him a dress, similar to those of the Epicureans?
It is all very simple, my dear monsieur; there will be a hunt, a banquet, concert, promenade and reception; these five kinds of dress are required by etiquette.
But when Katie brought the required dress, Princess Mary remained sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst into sobs.
The little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to Princess Mary.
Fanny let the dress lie in her lap a minute as she absently picked at the fringe, smiling to herself over the happy time when she wore it last and Sydney said she only needed cowslips in her lap to look like spring.
Now between ourselves, Fan, the price of that dress would give you all you 'll want for your spring fixings, that 's one consideration; then here 's another, which may have some weight with you," added Polly slyly.
The ladies'
dress is yet more magnificent and expensive; their robes are as large as those of the religious, of the order of St.
Wragge, throwing open the wardrobe, and taking a
dress down from one of the pegs.
Now she understood that Anna could not have been in lilac, and that her charm was just that she always stood out against her attire, that her
dress could never be noticeable on her.
It utterly spoils an excursion if you have folk in the boat who are thinking all the time a good deal more of their
dress than of the trip.
Without this arrest of everything, this standing still of all the pale decayed objects, not even the withered bridal
dress on the collapsed from could have looked so like grave-clothes, or the long veil so like a shroud.
Then she put on her
dress which sparkled like the stars, and went into the ball-room in it; and the king danced with her again, and thought she had never looked so beautiful as she did then.
John likes that
dress, though," she added wistfully.
I don't know whether it would have been any better if I could have put on my good clothes," said Cecily, with a rueful glance at her print
dress, which, though neat and clean, was undeniably faded and RATHER short and tight.
There now, the trays are ready, and everything in but my ball
dress, which I shall leave for Mother to pack," said Meg, cheering up, as she glanced from the half-filled trunk to the many times pressed and mended white tarlatan, which she called her `ball
dress' with an important air.
