“I slipped into a scarlet red gown and some black platforms.”

“To the instruction of a woman she added the logic of a gownsman and the love of a saint.”

“The gownsman, not knowing what had occurred, called next morning at the yard, and asked to see Mr. Fordham.”

“The gownsman and financier would find himself better off in France than elsewhere.”

“The two gownsmen lowered the rigid body. It lay straight as a board, supported by no more than its head on the chair-back, and its heels on the ground.”