Tailordom

Thither Tailordom triumphant was bearing its victim at a rattling pace, to settle him, and seal him for ever out of the ranks of gentlemen:

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After all her heroism and extraordinary efforts, after, as she feared, offending Providence -- after facing Tailordom -- the Countess was rolled away in a dingy fly unrewarded even by a penny, for what she had gone through.

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Probably Evan was already offended, or he held to Jack, as a comrade should, or else it was that Tailordom and the pride of his accepted humiliation bellowed in his ears, every fresh minute: 'Nothing assume!'

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She stepped across the threshold of Tailordom, won Mr. Goren's heart by her condescension, and worked Evan into a sorrowful mood concerning the invalid.

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Issuing out of Tailordom, she, a Countess, has done all this; and it were enough to make her glow, did not little evils, and angers, and spites, and alarms so frightfully beset her.

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Evan had now to reflect that he had just thrown away part of the price of his bondage to Tailordom; the mention of Rose filled his mind.

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She, living in a society but a few steps above Tailordom, however magnificent in expenditure and resources, abhorred it solemnly.

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Tailordom dispersed like fog before the full South-west breeze.

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The clear result of Evan's solitary musing was to cast a sort of halo over Tailordom.

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As it was, they, to the ale-invaded head of a young hero, feeling himself the world's equal, and condemned nevertheless to bear through life the insignia of Tailordom, not unnaturally struck with peculiar offence.

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