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When she handed him a black-bordered card and asked for Miss Mary Ware of Arizona, with an air of calm assurance and with the broadest of English accents, he bowed obsequiously and ushered her into the drawing room. In the far end of it Herr Vogelbaum was talking lustily in German to two young men, evidently fellow musicians.
It's a tea, and there couldn't be lanterns an' bunting or anything o' the sort. So I felt I could come in." "You are very good," I murmured, and in some perplexity, as she resumed her seat, I sat down also. Mis' Merriman sought in the pocket of her petticoat for a black-bordered handkerchief. "When you're in mourning so," she observed, "folks forget you. They don't really forget you, either.
Anyway, I'd got my nerves soothed down considerable and was almost countin' the incident as closed, when here the other day as I drifts back from lunch Vincent holds me up. "Lady to see Mr. Ellins," says he. "She's in the private office." "Sad words, Vincent," says I. "Don't tell me it's Bonnie." "Nothing like that," says he. "Here's her name," and he hands me a black-bordered card.
Have you read Dickens? Oh, it is charming! Brave Dickens! "David Copperfield" has some of his prettiest touches, and the reading of the book has done another author a great deal of good. There are certain good old ladies in every community who wear perennial mourning. They attend every funeral, carrying black-bordered handkerchiefs, and weep gently at the right time.
I never danced in my life, and it's unfeeling of you to be asking of me when my poor brother's only been in his grave eight days." She took out a, black-bordered handkerchief from a bag hanging at her side, and opened it carefully. "It's unfeeling of you, with him only dead one day over a week." Hands in his coat pockets, Archie bowed low. "I ask your pardon, ma'am.
With little interest and less hope, Hector took the letter, black-bordered and black-sealed, opened it, and glanced carelessly at the signature, while Annie stood looking at him, in the hope merely that he would find in it no fresh trouble some forgotten bill perhaps! She saw his face change, and his eyes grow fixed. A moment more and the letter dropped in the fender.
As she passed "Weepy Mary," who was still writing at the table and crying bitterly, Elaine hesitated and looked at her curiously. Even after Milton had opened Bennett's door, she could not resist another glance. Instinctively Elaine seemed to scent trouble. Bennett was still studying the black-bordered card, when she greeted him.
On these anniversaries a black-bordered advertisement appears in the newspapers, headed by the sign of the cross and the Requiescat in Pace, announcing that on this day twelve months Don Fulano de Tal passed from earth garnished with the holy sacraments, that all the masses this day celebrated in such and such churches will be applied to the benefit of his spirit's repose, and that all Christian friends are hereby requested to commend his soul this day unto God.
Only one person, a fair, weary faced woman away in Germany shed a few tears over the lawyer's black-bordered letter that announced his death to her and this was the deserted wife, who had once loved him.
"Now be quiet, Ellen," said the elder roughly but not unkindly, as she helped her up, and stuffing the black-bordered handkerchief into her pocket, took out the everyday one which she kept for use. "There, wipe your eyes, and be a stout gal. Don't let all the company see you crying." The last injunction evidently impressed Ellen, for she stopped at once.
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