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As to your age, remember you're only ten years ahead of me, and I expect to remain thirty-eight for some time." "But forty-eight is centenarian to a girl of twenty-two, Dosia." The colonel was plaiting and un-plaiting the ball-fringe of the bed-slip; his eyes followed the motion of his fingers he did not see his sister's triumphant smile as she dived again into the trunk.
"I will go upstairs" I repeated, "and put my bag in the spare room." We remained motionless and silent for a few seconds. "Mother is having tea with us to-day," Marion remarked at last, and dropped the worried end of ball-fringe and stood up slowly.... And so, with this immense discussion of our changed relations hanging over us, we presently had tea with the unsuspecting Mrs.
Straight opposite him, deep in the half-darkness, he saw all that show of white: against the wall stood the bed, under a white canopy of curtains hanging in folds, set off with a white ball-fringe; also a praying-desk with velvet cushions, above which was an image of the Sacred Heart, with gold flowers, and, hanging from a brass chain, a perpetual light glimmering in a little red glass; and, all around, on the white walls, little statues and pictures, like a devout little tabernacle ashine with cleanliness.
Why should I? From first to last, I've hardly thought of it as touching you.... Damn!" She scrutinised my face, and pulled at the ball-fringe of the little table beside her. "To think of it," she said. "I don't believe I can ever touch you again." We kept a long silence. I was only beginning to realise in the most superficial way the immense catastrophe that had happened between us.
Each contained a pretty brass bedstead, a comfortable chair or two, and curtains and cushions of flowered chintz. Rita's chintz showed deep red poppies on a pale buff ground; Peggy's was blue, with buttercups and daisies scattered over it; while Margaret's oh, Margaret's was not chintz after all, but old-fashioned white dimity, with a bewilderment of tufts, and ball-fringe, and tassels.
There was bright-patterned muslin round the gas-bracket in the middle of the room, round the mirror over the mantel, stuff with ball-fringe along the mantel and casing in the fireplace, I first saw ball-fringe here and even the lamp on the little bureau wore a shade like a large muslin hat. The table-cloth had ball-fringe and so had the window curtains, and the carpet was a bed of roses.
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