“Then find me a competent man of affairs along with a modiste and a personal maid from one of the agencies.”

“She turned to Colette and lifted her down from the bed and asked the modiste to measure her.”

“Twenty thousand francs were due to the modiste, thirty thousand to the linen draper, twelve thousand to the bootmaker.”

“He commenced in a humble position, and hed filled the public eye long enuff to satisfy his modist ambishen.”

“Would you beleave that the lady he was a-ritin' to was a chased modist lady of honour and mother of a family?”

“Being dressed in woman's clothing she is taller than ever, and so holds her chin and her eyes that it makes any modist woman mad.”