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Ada Cambridge. The Retrospect
The Retrospect
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. COMING HOME
CHAPTER II. ABOUT TOWN
CHAPTER III. IN BEAUTIFUL ENGLAND
CHAPTER IV. THE HOME OF CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER V. HALCYON DAYS
CHAPTER VI. EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS
CHAPTER VII. OLD TIMES AND NEW
SOME EARLY SUNDAYS
CHAPTER IX. MY GRANDFATHER'S DAYS
CHAPTER X. OUTDOOR LIFE
CHAPTER XI. AT THE SEASIDE
CHAPTER XII. EXCURSIONS TO SANDRINGHAM
CHAPTER XIII. A TRIP SOUTH
CHAPTER XIV. DEVON, GLORIOUS DEVON
CHAPTER XV. IN THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND
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Ada Cambridge
Published by Good Press, 2019
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I was out of that shop almost as soon as I was in, and distractedly flitting through other emporiums of the West End, wishing I had completed my outfit where I began it. I should have saved money and suited myself better. In pity for my companion, patiently awaiting my pleasure on the pavements outside—dropping asleep as he stood, poor boy, for he had not seen a bed for between thirty and forty hours—I confined myself to the one indispensable purchase, and that was a compromise between what I liked and what I could get.
Not that I suggest any rivalry between our best drapery shops and these best of Oxford and Regent Streets; it would be absurd to compare them. But I certainly realised as I had never done before how good the former are. I understood why a friend of mine with whom I once went clothes-buying in Bourke Street, immediately after her return from a year in England, plumping down on a chair by a familiar counter, said, with a luxurious sigh: "What a comfort to get back to our own shops again!" She did not "know her way about" in London; nor did I. And I cannot say that, at the six months' end, I had done any better for myself there than I should have done if I had supplied all my wants at home. I found no material difference in cost, and as regards the correct thing we are quite up to date. The new fashions are passed on to us for the corresponding season, winter or summer, that they belong to in England; and there is no doubt in my mind that, taking English women in the bulk and Australian women in the bulk, the latter are the better dressed by far. It is not what I expected would be the case.
