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Now I'll warrant that little head of yours is running on a new head-tire, a foot higher than those our city dames wear or you are all for a trip to Islington or Ware, and your father is cross and will not consent or " "Or you are an old fool, Dame Suddlechop," said Margaret, peevishly, "and must needs trouble yourself about matters you know nothing of."
I could have torn her starched head-tire from her formal head The Queen should have as soon had the heart out of my body, as the word Sebastian out of my lips That that piece of weaved tapestry should be a woman, and yet not have wit enough to tell a lie!" "And what was this story of Sebastian?" said the page. "By Heaven, Catherine, you are all riddles alike!"
The brow of Lady Cecil was calm, smooth, and unclouded, white as alabaster, and rendered still more beautiful by the few tresses of pale auburn hair that escaped from under the head-tire. The features were of a noble yet softened character, although painfully emaciated; and not a shadow of colour tinged her upturned lip.
Shall Lady Fleming try her eloquence in describing the last new head-tire from Paris? alas! the good dame has not changed the fashion of her head-gear since Pinkie-field for aught that I know. Shall my mignóne Catherine sing to her one of those touching airs, which draw the very souls out of me and Roland Graeme? Alas!
"I," answered Resa, blushing; and then Hyldreda perceived that, young as she was, the girl wore the matron's head-tire. "I, sitting there with my babe, wept to think of my poor sister who died long ago, and never knew the sweetness of wifehood and motherhood. And almost it grieved me, to think that my love had blotted out the bitterness of her memory even from the heart of Esbern Lynge."
For a certainty that poise of the chin emphasised the head's perfect carriage; as did the fashion of her head-tire, too the hair drawn straight above the brows and piled superbly, to break and escape in two careless love-locks on the nape of the neck in the ripple of each a smile, correcting the goddess to the woman.
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