I was in an agony.

But you are so indifferent to dress; and well you may be.

It is you who make dress pretty, and not dress that makes you pretty.' Alice, the buxom lady's-maid, wearing a much better dress than Mrs.
Barton's, now appeared to take Mr.Bridmain's place in retrieving the mischief, and after a great amount of supplementary rubbing, composure was restored, and the business of dining was continued.

When John was recounting his accident to the cook in the kitchen, he observed, 'Mrs.
Barton's a hamable woman; I'd a deal sooner ha' throwed the gravy o'er the Countess's fine gownd.

But laws! what tantrums she'd ha' been in arter the visitors was gone.' 'You'd a deal sooner not ha' throwed it down at all, _I_ should think,' responded the unsympathetic cook, to whom John did _not_ make love.