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She took out a scrap of cambric, dried her eyes like magic, and began to flit about the garden, humming a light air under her breath.
He flew into a passion, and said, "Conscience or no conscience, you do as I ask you to, or out of my house you go this very night." "Not to-night," I said. "Yes, to-night," he answered. "Do as I tell you, and you have no rent to pay, and this piece of cambric is yours, and I am your friend; but refuse me, and out of the house you go this very night; I have warned you long enough to pay the rent."
Nikolai Petrovitch was surprised; Fenitchka, the reserved and staid Fenitchka, had never given him a caress in the presence of a third person. 'What's the matter? he said, and, glancing at his brother, he gave her Mitya. 'You don't feel worse? he inquired, going up to Pavel Petrovitch. He buried his face in a cambric handkerchief. 'No ... not at all ... on the contrary, I am much better.
His dress is peculiar in that crowd of white cravats and acres of cambric shirt-fronts; black, well-worn black, is his suit; but his waistcoat is of black satin, double-breasted, and buttoned closely up to the throat. It is Dr.
Tupman, on whom the description of her charms had produced a powerful impression. 'Dead, sir dead, said the stranger, applying to his right eye the brief remnant of a very old cambric handkerchief. 'Never recovered the stomach pump undermined constitution fell a victim. 'And her father? inquired the poetic Snodgrass. 'Remorse and misery, replied the stranger.
Here the child in question began to howl for a dish of sweetmeats on the luncheon-table, and making a lunge across the table-cloth, upset a glass of wine over the best waistcoat of one of the guests present, Mr. Arthur Pendennis, who was greatly annoyed at being made to look foolish, and at having his spotless cambric shirt front blotched with wine.
‘Ah, now! you know!’ she slily smiled and shook her head. ‘I know nothing about them. What in the world do you mean, Eliza?’ ‘Oh, don’t ask me! I can’t explain it.’ She took up the cambric handkerchief which she had been beautifying with a deep lace border, and began to be very busy.
Davis, a white cambric handkerchief tied to a short stick, and an honest face, this last was the Colonel's, we rode up to the Rebel lines. A ragged, yellow-faced boy, with a carbine in one hand, and another white handkerchief tied to another short stick in the other, came out to meet us. "Can you tell us, my man, where to find Judge Ould, the Exchange Commissioner?" "Yas.
All through the discourse, the hymns, and the concluding prayer, Lucina sobbed softly at intervals, her face hidden in her cambric handkerchief. Somehow it went to her tender soul that the poor Colonel should be lying there with no wife or child to mourn him; then she had loved him, as she had loved everybody and everything that had come kindly into her life.
Her 'own woman' was in waiting to display and refold the whole wedding wardrobe, brocade, satin, taffetas, cambric, Valenciennes, and point d'Alencon. Anne had to admire each in detail, and then to give full meed to the whole casket of jewels, numerous and dazzling as befitted a constellation of heirlooms upon one small head.