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They were all slip-shoed; stockingless some; only under-petticoated all; their gowns, made to cover straddling hoops, hanging trollopy, and tangling about their heels; but hastily wrapt round them, as soon as I came up stairs.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel