[A Simpleton by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookA Simpleton CHAPTER VI 5/49
Johnnie is a general prac., and makes two thousand a year; and he shall call your one in; but he must live in Mayfair.
Why, Rosie, you would not be such a goose as to live in those places--they are quite gone by." "I shall do whatever you advise me, dear.
Oh, what a comfort to have a dear friend: and six months married, and knows things.
How richly it is trimmed! Why, it is nearly all trimmings." "That is the fashion." "Oh!" And after that big word there was no more to be said. These two ladies in their conversation gravitated towards dress, and fell flat on it every half-minute.
That great and elevating topic held them by a silken cord, but it allowed them to flutter upwards into other topics; and in those intervals, numerous though brief, the lady who had been married six months found time to instruct the matrimonial novice with great authority, and even a shade of pomposity.
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