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Waterloo Road little girl with her hair in curlpapers, a coral necklace round her neck the neck bare and her boots of thin stuff, worn out, with her toes coming through, and rags hanging from her heels, a profoundly accurate type of English national and political life. Your hair in curlpapers borrowing tongs from every foreign nation, to pinch you into manners.
At six o'clock in the evening Kuzma Vassilyevitch shaved carefully and sending for a hairdresser he knew, told him to pomade and curl his topknot, which the latter did with peculiar zeal, not sparing the government note paper for curlpapers; then Kuzma Vassilyevitch put on a smart new uniform, took into his right hand a pair of new wash-leather gloves, and, sprinkling himself with lavender water, set off.
STEPHEN: In the beginning was the word, in the end the world without end. Blessed be the eight beatitudes. I need not mention names. Seek thou the light. Best enters in hairdresser's attire, shinily laundered, his locks in curlpapers. A thing of beauty, don't you know, Yeats says, or I mean, Keats says. I am out for truth. Plain truth for a plain man.
Thyme's cheeks were crimson. At the end of the little street he stopped before a shop. "Come on," he said, "you'll see the sort of place where they buy their grub." In the doorway were standing a thin brown spaniel, a small fair woman with a high, bald forehead, from which the hair was gleaned into curlpapers, and a little girl with some affection of the skin.
As the soldiers surrounded Arthur, the master and mistress of the house brought up the rear of this strange procession; he in dressing gown and slippers, she in a long peignoir, with her hair in curlpapers. "There is, sure, another flood toward, and these couples are coming to the ark! Here comes a pair of very strange beasts!"
The captain came stumping down in a red nightcap and an old pea-coat; Tom had quickly slipped into a pair of trousers, and had a yellow handkerchief round his head; Becky appeared, her countenance ornamented with huge curlpapers, in a flannel petticoat and piece of chintz curtain over her shoulders; while the stout lieutenant, unable to find his garments in the dark, had groped his way up wrapped in a blanket, when coming suddenly in front of Becky, she shrieked out, "A ghost! a ghost! a ghost!" and ran off, nearly upsetting her master in her flight.
The colonel was torturing her; she did not know what to think of him. "Men are so false!" she cried, as she went to bed. Pierrette had given herself a frightful blow on the head, just above the ear, at the spot where young girls part their hair when they put their "front hair" in curlpapers. The next day there was a large swelling. "God has punished you," said Sylvie at the breakfast table.
One night when the old countess, in nightcap and dressing jacket, without her false curls, and with her poor little knob of hair showing under her white cotton cap, knelt sighing and groaning on a rug and bowing to the ground in prayer, her door creaked and Natasha, also in a dressing jacket with slippers on her bare feet and her hair in curlpapers, ran in.
Claudia sent out word that he might call again in an hour, and, glancing disconsolately at the window of her sitting-room as he walked away, he saw Miss Pounceby giggling behind the curtains with her head in a bush of curlpapers. He paced the streets until the hour had gone by, and then returned. 'What brings you here so early? Claudia asked.
The quotation flashed across Arthur's mind as he looked at the grotesque figures. He checked a laugh with a sense of its jarring incongruity this was a time for worthier thoughts. "Ave Maria, Regina Coeli!" he whispered, and turned his eyes away, that the bobbing of Julia's curlpapers might not again tempt him to levity. "Kindly explain to me," said Mr.
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