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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 mbt shoes light |
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