A new experience: Molly and Lawrence have both gone home,
and I am to be left for the first time in my life wholly at the mercy of hired
servants. Mr. Chesnut, being in such deep mourning for his mother, we see no
company. I have a maid of all work.
Tudy came with an account of yesterday's trip to Petersburg.
Constance Cary raved of the golden ripples in Tudy's hair. Tudy vanished in a
halo of glory, and Constance Cary gave me an account of a wedding, as it was
given to her by Major von Borcke. The bridesmaids were dressed in black, the
bride in Confederate gray, homespun. She had worn the dress all winter, but it
had been washed and turned for the wedding. The female critics pronounced it “flabby-dabby.”
They also said her collar was only "net," and she wore a cameo
breastpin. Her bonnet was self-made.
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 300-1
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