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humble trade, she went up to him, and without
the least deference to his fine laced coat, taxed
liim with presumption in coming there, and turned
him out of the room.?
shopping, just as people perform these duties before
that meal now.
Then gentlemen wore the Ramillies wig or lied
hair, small three-cornered hats laced with gold or
moderate time was never protracted. When the
hour of departure came even the most winning young
couples would crowd about her throne, petitioning
for ?one dance more,? but the inexorable MissNjcky
vacated her seat, and by a wave of her fan silenced
the musicians and summoned the candle-snuffers.
The evening was then the fashionable time for
receiving company in Edinburgh, when people were
all abroad upon the streets, after dinner calling and
cuffs, and square-toed shoes; and the dresses of
the ladies, if quaint, gave them dignity and grace.
?How fine it must have been to see, as an old gentleman
told me he had seen,? says Dr. Chambers,
? two hooped ladies moving along the Lawnmarket
in a summer evening, and filling up the whole footway
with their stately and voluminous persons ! ?
Ladies in Edinburgh then wore the calash,
a kind of hood formed of cane covered with silk,
