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Adela had thrown off her waterproof in the cab; she stood in her lady-like costume of home, her hat only showing that she had come from a distance. For years her cheeks had been very pale; in this moment her whole face was white as marble.
Command the just respect of all your fellow-voyagers, even though you fail to win their friendly regard. And Jack don't you ever dare, while you live, appear in public on those decks in fair weather, in a costume unbecoming your mother's drawing-room!"
"Who runs the house, I'd like to know, and looks after everything inside, and does the sewing? This outfit of mine, for instance? And her own outfit?" "Oh, Nora," protested Kathleen, the colour rising in her face. "Did you make your own costume?" inquired Mr. Romayne. "She did that," said Nora, "and mine and mother's, and she makes father's working shirts." "Oh, Nora, stop, please.
"Sh!" he whispered; "it looks as if we had waited too long; some one is approaching. Be ready to use your gun or to retreat into the house if necessary to fight it out there." "It is a white man," said the daughter in an undertone; "he may be a patient." It was clear by this time that the stranger was not a native, for he was dressed in civilized costume and his gait was that of a European.
Basking in the sunshine in front of this hut sits the dwarf himself, cutting broom-sticks with a knife out of the straightest of a bundle of ash saplings that lie beside him. He is dressed in a queer mixture of native and European costume, but otherwise time has wrought no change in him. "Greeting, Baas," he says as Leonard comes up. "Is Baas Wallace here yet?"
Custom is the same at Irkutsk as in all fashionable society of the empire. Visits of ceremony are made in full dress-uniform for an officer and evening costume for a civilian. Ceremonious calls are pretty short, depending of course upon the position and intimacy of the parties. The Russians are very punctilious in making and receiving visits.
Effective although it was, however, it was scarcely equal to the bang with which, instantly after, Peterkin bounded from the bower, in scanty costume, his eyeballs starting from his head with surprise and terror. One gaze he gave, one yell, and then fled into the bushes like a wild cat.
In color, the point of next importance, no fine effects of costume are to be attained without broad masses of pure and positive tints. These, however, may be enlivened with condimental garniture of broken and combined colors.
"He may some of the larger ones, for they had been submitted to an expert; but I doubt if he ever sees many of them again," her husband replied. During these last two days Mona had been kept steadily employed in performing various duties for Mrs. Montague. That lady's costume for the ball was to be of great elegance and beauty.
He was very tall, more than six feet in height. He was dressed in a suit of shiny black; his coat was buttoned tightly and the collar was turned up. The most noticeable part of his costume was a broad- brimmed straw hat. He wore no overcoat and his hands were ungloved.
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