And it takes a very bad dress, I can tell you, to put her out of that opinion." "She is right enough there:" Mrs.Shanks shook her head at her daughter for speaking in this way.

"The ugliest frock as ever came from France couldn't make her any but a booty.

And the Lord knows the quality have come to queer shapes now.

Undecent would be the name for it in our ranks of women.

Why, the last of her frocks she gave you, Jenny, how much did I put on, at top and bottom, and you three inches shorter than she is! And the slips they ties round them--oh dear! oh dear! as if that was to hold them up and buckle them together! Won't they have the groanings by the time they come to my age ?".