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Some one said the Deemster's heart was beating. They brought from another room a little ivory hand-glass and held it over the mouth. When they raised it the face of the mirror was faintly blurred. That little cloud on the glass seemed more bright than the shining tread of an angel on the sea. Jem-y-Lord took a sponge and began to moisten the cold forehead.
She knotted her pale hair on the nape of her neck, and, chin up, hands on hips, stared critically at herself in the glass, and, as she looked her lips parted a little in pleasure. Snatching up the hand-glass, she poised from one foot to the other, craning her neck to see herself from every possible point of view. "Yes," she decided, "I'll go. And then a new life.
As her father entered the office to take her home, Missy gave a deep sigh, a sigh of mingled satisfaction and exhaustion such as seals a difficult task well done. Late as it was when she reached home, Missy lingered long before her mirror. With the aid of a hand-glass she critically studied her pink organdie from every angle.
"What the deuce is the man talking about?" said the smile of our host. "I found a little grey hair this morning," Miss Searle incoherently prosed. "Well then I hope you paid it every respect!" cried her visitor. "I looked at it for a long time in my hand-glass," she answered with more presence of mind.
Undine, laughing confidently, took up a hand-glass and scrutinized the small brown mole above the curve of her upper lip. "I guess she'll know how to talk to him," Mrs. Spragg averred with a kind of quavering triumph. "She'll know how to LOOK at him, anyhow," said Mrs. Heeny; and Undine smiled at her own image. "I hope he won't think I'm too awful!" Mrs. Heeny laughed.
Part of this was certainly true, for at Coombs' we had the broken half of a hand-glass to make our simple toilet, and at Fairmead a whole one of some four inches diameter which cost two bits, tin-backed, at the store, and I remember saying that it was an extravagance. Now I stared into the long glass, standing erect in my one gala garment of fringed deerskin.
Mild as was the May air, Madame de Kerman's hand-glass hanging at her side was quickly lifted in the very middle of the open court-yard; she had scarcely passed the door when she had felt one of her patches blowing off. "I caught it just in time, dear duchesse," she cried, as she stood quite still, replacing it with a fresh one picked from her patch-box, as the others passed her.
The gunner who fires stands with the hand-glass to mark the time between each discharge. On this occasion he began his orders thus: 'Fire, port; then suddenly recollecting that the tompions were not removed he added, 'Tompions are in, sir. No one moved. The gunner could not leave his work of marking time.
His eyes fell on the back of a woman, who was sitting in front of one of the windows, doing her hair. In her hand she held a pair of curlingtongs, and, before her, on the foot-end of the sofa, a hand-glass was propped up. Her hair was thick and blond.
If this act be well imitated, the student will find, on looking into a hand-glass, that the tongue is more or less furrowed behind in the middle in other words, it forms a sort of trough; and the deeper the trough the student learns to form at will, the better, for there are times in actual singing and speaking when this must be as deep as possible.
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