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and I don't care who knows what a miserable mantua-maker she is.

Mantua-maker! What does all this nonsense mean?

It is nonsense, for sartain; and I says to her, says I, "What does it signify making the gown too long, only for to save the cutting of the stuff, when I cannot take one step before me, without trampling it in the dirt?"

Is the gown here?

Yes, Sir Cameron; and she is waiting at the back gate to take it to be altered.

Ha! let me see it.

I hope you like the colour, Sir: it is gay, but genteel. I never buys nothing that is vulgar.

Why should you, Marmalade? People only buy what they want.—And it is too long for you?