The old, draggled silk gown did not count one way or the other.

It was simply a covering to keep one's clothes clean when one fed a calf.

When they should return to the house, and she took off her old gown, she and her visitor would be better acquainted, and their comparative opinions of each other would not depend so much on clothes.

Miriam was accustomed to making philosophical reflections concerning her relations with the rest of the world; and in regard to these relations she was at times very sensitive..