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"Oh, he was not himself. He was happy, I believe you call it 'happy'?" "How did you bear it!" "I didn't bear it I suppose. I never have borne it!" "Did he repent before he died?" William King said passionately. "Before he ?" Her voice suddenly shook; she made elaborate pretence of calmness, fastening her gloves and looking at them critically; then she said: "Yes, Dr. King; he repented.
It was then that the Majordomo, always a marvelous figure in crimson and gold, and never seen without white gloves the Majordomo bowed in a window, and observed that if His Royal Highness pleased, His Royal Highness's luncheon was served. In the shrouded room inside the windows, however, His Royal Highness paused and looked around. "I've been here before," he observed.
After the breath had left Anne's still lovely body, Mistress Saunders dressed her in a "Brussels lace head-dress, a Holland shift, with tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, and a pair of new kid gloves."
The lady motioned to Lewis to sit down. She sat down herself and started drawing off her long gloves. She looked curiously at Lewis's face. "You're a Leighton yourself, aren't you? Some relative to Mrs. Leighton and Natalie?" Lewis nodded. "A cousin in some Scotch degree to Natalie," he said; "I don't know just what." Then he turned his eyes frankly on her. "Where are they Mrs.
Perkins, smoothing down her gingham flounces, and drawing on her cotton gloves, arose to go, asking Mary as she passed, "if that was an acquaintance of hers." Mary shook her head, and the widow, more puzzled than ever, took her leave. When school was out, Mr.
When the whole thing was over, Mrs Chaucer Munro's bevy, lying about on the benches in fatigue before they went away, declared that, as far as they were concerned, the thing was a mistake. The expenditure in gloves and muslin had been considerable, and the returns to them had been very small.
It was clad in black broadcloth, and black kid gloves, and there was a black shining silk hat on the top of it; and in one of the black kid gloved hands was balanced a black silk umbrella.
There was a leg attached. I reached for it, but Lomax shoved me back. "Don't the enzymes in the corpse are worse than the poison, Paul. Hands off." He reached down with the gloves and heaved. It was Hendrix, all right a corpse with a face and hands as white as human flesh could ever get. Even the lips were bleached out. Jenny moaned. "The fool! The stupid fool.
Murray was poking the fire, and cheerful flames were leaping upward in response to the call to wake. She had removed one of her gloves. With the slim, bared fingers she fondled the pearls about her neck, but her thoughts were not of baubles.
Yes, I will go forth, even at the midnight hour, and perchance I may encounter some poor fellow-creature worthy of my aid, or visit some abode of poverty where I can minister to the comfort of its wretched inmates. He threw on an ample cloak, put on a fur cap and gloves, and taking his sword-cane in his hand, left the hotel, and proceeded at a rapid pace thro' the moon-lit and deserted streets.
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