Bright colors, smooth material, exquisite craftsmanship, soft lines… Darling, it looks elegant on you! It can't be any cheap stuff. Something around two hundred, I guess.
She was wearing robes made of a floaty, periwinkle-blue material, and she was holding herself differently, somehow - or maybe it was merely the absence of the twenty or so books she usually had slung over her back.
" Keep 'em, to be sure, " said Fairway, " if it is only for luck. Perhaps 'twill tempt some woman that thy poor carcase had no power over when standing empty-handed."
She did not understand. He was silent. Then, passing to his trade, Lheureux declared that madame must require something. He would send her a black barege, twelve yards, just enough to make a gown.