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"The only people who have any clue as to how they are done are my two attendants both as you know natives of Cashmere, and men who, I feel pretty certain, could not be 'got at." "In that case," Gladys remarked, "I fail to see what there is to worry about. Your course is perfectly clear take no notice of it." John Martin was silent dazed. He did not know what to think or do!
The golden curls fell in a shining shower over the dainty white cashmere robe, belted with blue velvet, soft white lace and a diamond pin sparkling at the rounded throat. She came forward with a bright smile and outstretched hand to greet them. "I was cross last night, you know," she said, "and couldn't properly speak to my friends.
Oliver," replied Ralston, "She was at Srinagar in Cashmere this summer, staying with the Resident. My sister met her there, I think she told Mrs. Oliver you were likely to come to us about this time." Dick's heart leaped within him suddenly. Had Violet Oliver arranged her visit so that it might coincide with his? It was at all events a pleasant fancy to play with.
So, also, with point-lace, velvet dresses, and hundreds of things of that sort, which belong to a certain rate of income, and are absurd below it." "And yet, mamma, I heard Aunt Easygo say that velvet, point-lace, and Cashmere were the cheapest finery that could be bought, because they lasted a lifetime."
Her woman's instinct, however, caused the reflection that the roses must have cost more than all the boxes of the cure she could buy in a lifetime. Septimus was dutifully waiting for her in the hall. She noted that he was more spruce than usual, in a new gray cashmere suit, and that his brown boots shone dazzlingly, like agates.
The girl who waits on it has gold earrings dangling against her white neck and a cap with turned up wings, like Molière's soubrettes, and her sparkling blue eyes would incline anyone to ask her for something more than mere plates. But the guests! What guests! All habitués! At the upper end sat a creature in a velvet jacket and a cashmere waistcoat.
They have a language of their own, and wear gold and silver ear-rings, artificially ornamented with pearls and other precious stones; they eat flesh and rice, and are crafty and cruel idolaters. The province of Chesmur, Khesimus, Khaschimir, or Cashmere, is seven days journey from Bascia.
As rather lively gestures had illustrated this little speech, the white cashmere dressing-gown had slipped slipped a good deal, and had opened, very much opened; the criminal shoulders were within reach of M. Derline's lips he succumbed. Besides, he too felt the abominable influence of the press.
Although upwards of eighty years old, he was as erect as a lance, and of herculean stature; a remarkably arched nose, eyes like an eagle's, beneath large, shaggy, but perfectly white eyebrows, while a snow-white beard of great thickness descended below the middle of his breast. He wore a large white turban, and a white cashmere robe reaching from the throat to the ankles.
"If woman can make the worst wilderness dear, What a heaven she must make of Cashmere!" He no doubt ejaculates "Wa, wa!" in admiration of the poetry of the West, and thinks complacently of the partner of his joys as all his fancy painted her.
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