"Mantuamaker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... refinement," Vesta thought; and also observed that the visitor was a tall, long-fingered, rather sightly girl of, probably, seventeen, with clothing the mantuamaker was guiltless of, and a hoop bonnet, such as old people continued to make in remembrance of the high-decked vessels which had brought the last styles to them when their ancestors emigrated with their all, and forever, from a land of modes. ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend |
