I am afraid it is an unhealthy occupation,’ said Miss La Creevy.
‘I recollect getting three young milliners to sit to me,
tods moccasin, when I firstbegan to paint, and I remember that they were all very pale andsickly.’
‘Oh! that’s not a general rule by any means,’ observed MrsNickleby; ‘for I remember, as well as if it was only yesterday,employing one that I was particularly recommended to, to makeme a scarlet cloak at the time when scarlet cloaks werefashionable, and she had a very red face—a very red face, indeed.’
‘Perhaps she drank,’ suggested Miss La Creevy.
‘I don’t know how that may have been,
tods sneakers,’ returned Mrs Nickleby:
‘but I know she had a very red face, so your argument goes fornothing.’
In this manner,
tods mens shoes, and with like powerful reasoning, did theworthy matron meet every little objection that presented itself tothe new scheme of the morning. Happy Mrs Nickleby! A projecthad but to be new, and it came home to her mind, brightlyvarnished and gilded as a glittering toy.