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That night when the entertainment had come to an end, and Uncle Ben was seated at his cozy supper, he was much surprised when the door of the room was pushed suddenly open and a small girl, clad in a little white nightdress, made her appearance. "Is my dear Uncle Ben anywhere about?" called out the clear little voice. "My word! if that aint little Diana," said the man.
She had a fine open countenance, an artless and prepossessing manner, and was plainly but comfortably clad in the ordinary homespun of the country, and not only looked neat herself, but everything around her was beautifully clean.
I disembarrassed myself of my outer garments, threw off my sun-hat, and, clad only in my shoes and tunic, sprinted for the door into the wild- garden, through it, through its upper door, which, as I had forecasted, I found open, and out on the lower terrace.
But when the theatre was filled with an eager multitude its bareness disappeared; and its brilliant lowest division where sat the nobles clad in purple-bordered white robes: a long sweep of white dashed with strong colour fitly brought the auditorium into harmony with the splendour of the permanent setting of the stage.
The doors of the prisons were then thrown open, and among the four hundred prisoners who were set at liberty were sixty young women, very beautiful in person, and clad in the richest attire.
That's Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road, and his band of outlaws!" "What is it possible? The same gang whom the Pioneer is making such a splurge over, every week." "The same. That fellow clad in black is Deadwood Dick, the leader." "Humph! He in black; you in scarlet. Two contrasting colors." "That is so. I had not thought of it before. But no significance is attached thereto." "Perhaps not.
Had she actually, like the Lady Godiva, been called upon to ride the length of Broadway, clad only in her beautiful hair, and placarded "Burton's Sister and Edwardes' Fiancée," it could have meant to her delicacy of feeling no greater trial, no more truly the denuding of herself to the public gaze.
Early in the morning the whole house was astir; large hampers were packed, ladies and gentlemen were clad in gay midsummer attire, and, soon after breakfast, huge carriages with four horses, and postilions with red coats and top-boots, after the fashion of the olden time, were drawn up before the door.
In the midst of this peace and content her brother appeared with a flag of truce. He was hailed as a prosperous prodigal, for he too was a lad of metal, but he brought one with him that made poor Lassie start and tremble. It was a lady, young and beautiful, clad in deep mourning.
All the walls are pierced with doors, through which are seen, like ghosts, the servants, clad in flowing white garments, gliding about with noiseless feet in all directions.
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