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whatever as to their requirements. Her mind harked back to the
dress of little boys at that period. She ordered for me a velvet.html">velvet.html">velvet.html">velvet.html">velvet
velvet cap with a peak and tassel, such as young England wore in
made for me, of the pattern worn by boys in her youth; every
at least thirty years. In my ignorance, and luckily not knowing
with great satisfaction in a big, floppy collar, and my new velvet
dormitory. I was, however, hardly prepared for the yells and howls
greeted; my unfortunate garments were held to be so unspeakably
As church.html">church.html">church-time approached the boys produced their high hats, which
but my terrible tasselled velvet cap, the sight of which provoked
two and two, in old-fashioned style in a "crocodile," but not a
very forlorn little fellow trotted to church alone behind the
presenting. I must have been dressed very much as Henry Fairchild
returning from church, I threw my velvet cap into the water-butt,
induce me to put on the velvet tunic or the floppy collars a
myself equipped with a high hat and Eton jackets and collars such
Belgian, M. Vansittart. I could talk French then as easily as
he cried, "Tiens! mais c'est un petit Francais;" but the other
accent, that in self-defence I adopted an. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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