What does the author indicate in this sentence?

They steer their father's yacht, walk the Lord knows how many miles, and don't care a cent about rain, besides doing a host of other things that would shock our ladies to death; and yet in the parlor are the most elegant looking women, in their satin shoes and diamonds, I ever saw…

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What does the author indicate in this sentence?

They steer their father's yacht, walk the Lord knows how many miles, and don't care a cent about rain, besides doing a host of other things that would shock our ladies to death; and yet in the parlor are the most elegant looking women, in their satin shoes and diamonds, I ever saw…

hannaha · Answer

How the women of this particular culture are very versatile, able to go from tough to ladylike in a minute; And nobody would guess their other lives from how they look in their average life.