john3859
Dołączył: 25 Sty 2011
Posty: 1639
Przeczytał: 0 tematów
Ostrzeżeń: 0/5 Skąd: England
|
Wysłany: Śro 15:54, 16 Lut 2011 Temat postu: 201005112111402821ahq |
|
|
119
more precious than any hatbox ever contained. Just to hear her
admonishing a customerher good-natured face all aglow:
My dearalways put on your hat before you get into your dress.
I do. You can get your arms above your headand set it right. I put
on my hat and veil as soon's I get my hair combed.
In your mind's eye you saw hera stoutwell-stayed figure in tight
brassiere and scant slipbare-armed and bare-bosomedin smart hat and
veilattired as though for the street from the neck up and for the bedroom
from the shoulders down.
The East End set bought Sophy Decker's hats because they were
modish and expensive hats. But she managedmiraculouslyto gain a
large and lucrative following among the paper-mill girls and factory hands
as well. You would have thought that any attempt to hold both these
opposites would cause her to lose one or the other. Aunt Sophy said
franklythat of the twoshe would have preferred to lose her smart trade.
The mill girls come in with their money in their handsyou might say.
They get good wages and they want to spend them. I wouldn't try to sell
them one of those little plain model hats. They wouldn't understand 'em
or like them. And if I told them the price they'd think I w [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Post został pochwalony 0 razy
|
|