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186 A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKEBS.
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Chapter'vi. • I " Milliners Have Already...
b that ut I day always , they were did at liberty utmos to t t go o induce in and out them at t their o att discretion end some ,
place of worship at least once on the sabbath , though I neyer in interfered as to their reliious tenetswhether they
were any Protestants way Roman Catholicsor g Dissenters , . About the middle , of Julwe considered , the busy season to
be overand then all began y , to think about holidays . To each I , fortnihtthat is to to those who liked to take it
having gave friends g with , whom to say spend , it . They would be absent , hands in their having turns the , and privilege three or of s four electing at the their sam own e t time ime , my betwee firs n t
be the O back middle f course agai of n Jul by y to one 1 the st knows of middle October th of at , September when the winter I started ; but season for all , Paris had in the . to
fashionable world , every will not bear comparison with the summer impossible spend season , the for win for by t t hem a , s t trange t t heir enj coun anomal the try country y our ts , aris w and hen tocracy come it is t absolu o prefer Lon t el to y
just at the time when Nature oy begins to , put on . her loveliest garbwhich as unaccountable a want of tasteas
another ; practice appears of our aristocracy seems a want of judgment , ; I allude to their turning niht into day for their dinners and
'balls . g But to return to subject ! I have said that the winter will _^
my houses not bear ! com Of p cour arison se ladies with the wheth summer er residing season in th milliners eir town *
t bonnets mansions hem to adapted or ive at coun to ter the try balls sea season t , , mus concer ; but t have ts it such is dres not s th e the s in , man s fashion are tles never , and for
thought of till May . There can be no , FMes _Champitres g . We mi Eng h t sh be fashionable not even posses promenades s a jardin and d'kiver we , have where neither there
g ; immense drawing rooms difference nor state which balls exist during s between the winter the . summer Hence , the
h win ouses ter season business . During where * t the he work latter r , therefore s are no , t there all cleared are few by
9 o ' clock ; but even this I affirm to be at least three hours too la o ' clock te for a t t lat es ull t season and th , when all wor le k sh v ould e the be re o st ver of by the 6
evening to themselves , . I y may oung add peop that this was always my where custom , ; during but I the could dull name time , houses and wh of en quite orders the are firs unusuall t class y ,
the slack household , the girls and are famil still kep linen t at work of the till establishment 9 o ' clock in re mendin pairing the stockings of the princi y pals , & c _, & c . Of course , , however g ,
few in such would duties do it , a . first hand is not expected to take part , indeed
186 A Season With The Dbessmakebs.
186 A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKEBS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/42/
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