'But you may say what you like about them now; for mine is drowned.' 'Come, girls, there are four more chapters, I see.

Let me finish it, and then we can discuss it afterwards.' "CHAPTER III "Having thus described the Lady Crinoline----" 'You haven't described her at all,' said Linda; 'you haven't got beyond her clothes yet.' 'There is nothing beyond them,' said Charley.
'You haven't even described her face,' said Katie; 'you have only said that she had a turned-up nose.' 'There is nothing further that one can say about it,' said Charley.
"Having thus described the Lady Crinoline,' continued Mrs.
Woodward, 'it now becomes our duty, as impartial historians, to give some account of Mr.Macassar Jones.
"We are not prepared to give the exact name of the artist by whom Mr.Macassar Jones was turned out to the world so perfectly dressed a man.

Were we to do so, the signal service done to one establishment by such an advertisement would draw down on us the anger of the trade at large, and the tailors of London would be in league against the _Daily Delight_.

It is sufficient to remark that the artist's offices are not a hundred miles from Pall Mall.

Nor need we expressly name the bootmaker to whom is confided the task of making those feet 'small by degrees and beautifully less.' The process, we understand, has been painful, but the effect is no doubt remunerative.
"In three especial walks of dress has Macassar Jones been more than ordinarily careful to create a sensation; and we believe we may assert that he has been successful in all.