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The condition that he must wait six months was imposed on the marquis, and he went back to France with the ring on his finger. His betrothed bride did not shed a single tear for him, and as soon as he had gone, flung the engagement ring into the jewel-cup on her dressing-table, before the eyes of the camariera, from whom I heard the story.
Then snatching a small tablet from the dressing-table, she scrawled upon the wax with a rapid hand: "Cleopatra, the Queen, desires to see Barine, the daughter of Leonax, without delay. She must obey any command of Iras, Cleopatra's messenger, and her companion." Then, closing the diptychon, she handed it to her attendant, asking: "Whom will you take?" She answered without hesitation, "Alexas."
Claire looked at the candied fruits, stared at Jeff rather queerly as though she was really thinking of some one else and mused: "I didn't know I cared so much for these foolish luxuries. Tonight, I'd like a bath, just a tiny bit scented, and a real dressing-table with a triple mirror, and French talc, and come down in a dinner-gown Oh, I have enjoyed the trip, Jeff.
When the serving-woman fled, her mistress rushed feverishly to the dressing-table, opened two little toilet jars, and with a brush painted her face rose-color. Toward evening, feeling continual pain in her joints and fear in her heart, which was worse than pain, she commanded to call a physician.
When he had pulled the blind up, he turned, propped himself against the dressing-table, and gazed at her with terribly lack-lustre eyes. Then she saw the expression of his face change; there came upon it a smile such as she had never seen or imagined, a hideous smile that made her blood cold. Without speaking, he threw himself forward and came towards her.
A night-light in the basin, and one candle on the dressing-table showed him a tall white figure bending over the rail of the cot where his son lay asleep. Honor had discarded her dinner dress for a light wrapper, and her loosened hair fell in a dusky mass almost to her knees. For a few seconds Desmond stood watching her, uncertain whether to intrude upon her grief or no.
'Never till you give me leave. Now do let me see if I cannot help you. Lie down on the bed, and I will sit by you, and let us talk it over. But Cypthia sate down again in the chair by the dressing-table. 'When did it all begin? said Molly, after a long pause of silence. 'Long ago four or five years. I was such a child to be left all to myself.
Her whole armament consisted of fourteen 4-pounders. When her new commander tried to add to these a couple of 12-pounders, the deck proved too small and the timbers too weak for them, and they had to be returned. So Lilliputian was his cabin, that, to shave himself, Lord Cochrane was obliged to thrust his head out of the skylight and make a dressing-table of the quarter-deck.
Nora observed her with a pair of shrewd brown eyes. "There are two bouquets for you downstairs," she said abruptly. Constance turned round startled, almost hidden by the thick veil of her brown hair. "Who's sent them?" "One comes from Mr. Radowitz a beauty. The other's from Lord Meyrick. Isn't he a jolly boy?" Constance turned back to the dressing-table, disappointed.
As she came back to her dressing-table, it was noticeable that she walked steadily and erect, without that slight affectation of lameness common to people with whom bare feet are only an episode.
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