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Having been laid on the floor, and washed with a bucket of water which I drew from the ocean, the body was then dressed in a white frock, trowsers, and neckerchief, taken out of the bag. While this was going on, the master-at-arms standing over the operation with his rattan, and directing myself and mess-mates indulged in much discursive levity, intended to manifest his fearlessness of death.
Well, that absurd quadruped went about all day as perky as a schoolgirl in a new frock; and when they took the wreath off she became quite sulky, and they had to put it on again before she would stand still to be milked. This is not a Percy anecdote. It is plain, sober truth. As for cats, they nearly equal human beings for vanity.
"Ay, get up, and welcome," replied the waggoner. The waggon did not stop, but in a moment or two the new passenger climbed in. He was dressed in a clean smock frock, neatly worked up the front, leather gaiters, and stout shoes; a bundle and a stick were in his hand. He smiled as he looked round upon the company, and showed a beautiful set of teeth.
"Why, where " She paused as though she had come upon something which did not quite please her. As a matter of fact it had recurred to her with an unpleasant jolt that Evelyn was wearing an evening gown entirely too expensive for her present circumstances. So were her evening coat, her scarf and all the dainty appointments which so perfectly matched the white silk frock.
It made me long to go on the river again." "Why why didn't you?" Carrissima faltered. "Come, come, what are you dreaming of?" said Colonel Faversham, with one of his boisterous laughs. "Picture my rowing in these clothes: a frock coat!" "Oh well," she returned, "I scarcely imagined you would row yourself." "Not row myself!" he exclaimed. "Why shouldn't I, in the name of goodness?
It shocked him a little to see a girl in a tousled blue cotton frock, with a green stain on the front of it, with a tangle of damp fair hair hanging round her head in shining strings, with unabashed fearless eyes which looked at him with a certain shrewd merriment. "You look wobbly," said Priscilla. "Can't you walk by yourself?" "I've met with an accident," said Frank. "That's all right.
Perhaps, in truth, a sentiment had sprung up in her breast when she heard of my disappearance, which she mistook for love. But surely the impulse that sent her to Castle Yard was not the same as that Comyn had depicted: it was merely the survival of the fancy of a little girl in a grass-stained frock, who had romped on the lawn at Carvel Hall.
A middle-aged man, with iron grey hair and moustache, who wore a frock coat and a white waistcoat, and in some indefinable manner suggested a retired naval officer, was sitting at their table smoking a long, thin cigar. At sight of him, Presley became animated. He uttered a mild exclamation: "Why, isn't that Mr. Cedarquist?" "Cedarquist?" repeated Lyman Derrick. "I know him well.
Cut me twenty yards, Middlemass; I do declare I'll wear it for my travelling dress, and no other. She'll do it, too, Miss Matty, you'll see. And beautiful she'll look." The three girls sighed. They sighed in unison. As there was a lover in the question, the two younger were willing that Matty should have a new frock. But a silk! Each girl wanted the silk for herself.
She was taken up, dressed in her prettiest frock and led down the narrow stairway. She heard the Lady say: "Shake hands with Lord Coombe." Robin put her hand behind her back she who had never disobeyed since she was born! "Be pretty mannered, Miss Robin my dear," Andrews instructed, "and shake hands with his Lordship." Each person in the little drawing-room saw the queer flame in the child-face.
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