![]() ![]() ![]() So busy was she on this day that she did not hear Laurie's ring nor see his face peeping in at her as she gravely promenaded to and fro, flirting her fan and tossing her head, on which she wore a great pink turban, contrasting oddly with her blue brocade dress and yellow quilted petticoat. Fairfax was summoned to give information respecting the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind and certain wardrobes of the third storey were ransacked, and their contents, in the shape of brocaded and hooped petticoats, satin sacques, black modes, lace lappets, &c., were brought down in armfuls by the abigails then a selection was made, and such things as were chosen were carried to the boudoir within the drawing-room. (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) He was clad, I remember, in his flowing brocade dressing-gown, as was his custom before he set off for his club, and his foot was extended upon a stool-for Abernethy had just been in to treat him for an incipient attack of the gout. The next morning, after breakfast, the green maiden came to fetch Dorothy, and she dressed her in one of the prettiest gowns, made of green brocaded satin. Kirke remembered some old brocades, and Miss Norton lent me lace and feathers. ![]()
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