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Discerning his opportunity at last, Vendale determined to do nothing of the kind. He met Obenreizer dexterously, with Obenreizer's own weapons. "Pray don't distress yourself," he said. "I'll wait here with the greatest pleasure till you come back." Marguerite blushed deeply, and turned away to her embroidery-frame in a corner by the window.
Madame, sitting by the window with her embroidery-frame, heard the account also. Several times she looked significantly across at Cousin Kate, over the child's head. "Joyce," said Cousin Kate, "you have had so little outdoor exercise since Jules's accident that it would be a good thing for you to run around in the garden awhile before dark."
The monster had been much pondered in the city; certainly it portended wars or strange public happenings, since it had the face of a child, greyhound's ears, a sow's forelegs, and a dragon's tail. But the huckster had gone to another room, and Margot was getting her supper with the Lady Mary's serving-maids. 'Save us! Katharine said to herself over her embroidery-frame, 'here be more drunkards.
She lifted the embroidery-frame from its rest and turned toward the door. "I have other work to do if I am not to pose for you," she said quietly. He made no reply. Half-way to the door she paused, looking back. "Herr Mündler was here while you were out. We owe him twenty-five guldens. It was due the fifth." She spoke the words crisply. Her face gave no sign of emotion. He nodded indifferently.
"I always did regard the Politician as a fabulous monster. But tell me, Pam, how long is this to continue? Are you so enamoured of the simple life that you can go on indefinitely living in Miss Bathgate's parlour and eating stewed steak and duck's eggs?" Pamela dropped her embroidery-frame, looked at her brother with a puzzled frown, and gave a long sigh.
'Tell me, Dmitri Nikolaitch, she began one day, sitting by the window at her embroidery-frame, 'shall you be in Petersburg in the winter? 'I don't know, replied Rudin, as he let the book he had been glancing through fall upon his knee; 'if I can find the means, I shall go. He spoke dejectedly; he felt tired, and had done nothing all day. 'I think you are sure to find the means.
More than once, in fact, in the course of that agreeable morning, Clarissa had for a moment forgotten that she was talking to Mr. Austin the painter, and not to her brother Austin Lovel. More than once an unconscious warmth or softness in her tone had made Miss Granger look up from her embroidery-frame with the eyes of wonder. Mr.
By George, sir, I'd like either of you to see the time it takes I won't say the brain but just the time it takes to pick out a good motor-boat. Why, I went " Mrs. Stilling set her embroidery-frame noiselessly on the table at her side, and turned her head toward Wrayford. "Would you mind ringing for the tray?" The interruption helped Mrs. Swordsley to waver to her feet.
I remember the tiny little hands that pushed the coloured silks so nimbly through the cloth that was stretched on the embroidery-frame, the vast trouble I was put to to get a coloured copy of my armorial bearings for the heraldic work which was to decorate the front of the band, the pursings up of the little mouth, and the contractions of the young forehead, as their possessor plunged into a profound sea of cogitation touching the way in which the cloud should be represented from which the armed hand, that is my crest, issues, the heavenly moment when the tiny hands placed it on my head, in a position that I could not bear for more than a few seconds, and I, kinglike, immediately assumed my royal prerogative after the coronation, and instantly levied a tax on my only subjects which was, however, not paid unwillingly.
The small person whom Gantry and a few others were still calling the court of last resort was sitting up, and the tiny embroidery-frame on the table had evidently just been laid aside. "Well?" she said inquiringly. The senator shook his head in patient tolerance. "Whatever you've been doing, it's knocked the bottom clean out for the boy, Honoria.
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