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And I miss the pretty quaintness in Primrose. How dainty it was!" Primrose ran away and in five minutes came back in a soft, gray silken gown, narrow and quite short in the skirt, a kerchief of sheer mull muslin crossed on her bosom, and all her hair gathered under a plain cap.
I could see it all from my window. But no noise reached the hut; I was alone, and remained so. Now and again someone would pass. I saw Eva, the blacksmith's girl; she had got a couple of freckles on her nose. "Where are you going?" I asked. "Out for firewood," she answered quietly. She had a rope in her hand to carry the wood, and her white kerchief on her head.
In spite of herself a flicker of amusement lit her eyes. She had a sense of humor, "I did not think of that, and since you have troubled to return it to me, I can only say thank you." She held out her hand for the kerchief, but he did not move. "I don't know but what I'll keep it, after all, for a souvenir.
A hasty meal was provided by Nanon, and a basket so stored as to obviate the need of entering a village, on that day at least, to purchase provisions; Eustacie's money and jewels again formed the nucleus of the bundle of clothes and spare swaddling-banks of her babe; her peasant dress was carefully arranged a stout striped cloth skit and black bodice, the latter covered by a scarlet Chollet kerchief.
"Nay, most royal Cleopatra, nay!" I said, turning; for the kerchief which had fallen from Charmion's neck had an awkward look. "I know not, indeed, how the frippery came here. Perhaps, some one of the women who keeps the chamber may have let it fall." "Ah! so so!" she said dryly, and still laughing like a rippling brook.
Suddenly someone in the room struck a flint and lit a lantern. Lovel set his eyes to a crack and stood very still. The woman had gone, and the room held three men. One lay on the floor with a coarse kerchief, such as grooms wear, knotted round his throat. Over him bent a man in a long coat with a cape, a man in a dark peruke, whose face was clear in the lantern's light.
Evelina seemed a part of the brightness; her dark eyes so softly alight, her curving red lips, the faint flush in her cheeks, her rich brown hair, and the purplish kerchief about the neck of her yellow dress. Once more she looked smilingly at him, and shook her head and laid her finger on her lip.
The kerchief, having been laid on the table and unwrapped, disclosed a fantastic piece of ironwork in the shape of a crown, set with stones of which the preciousness was concealed by a plentiful layer of dust. He lifted this, set it on my head for a moment, and, replacing it on the table, took up the brown-paper parcel. "This," said he, "contains the Great Seal.
A head utterly withered, of a uniform coppery hue like some very ancient holy picture, yellow with age; a sharp nose like a keen-edged knife; the lips could barely be seen only the teeth flashed white and the eyes; and from under the kerchief some thin wisps of yellow hair straggled on to the forehead.
Hsiang-yuen once again eagerly quoted the line: In the seaside market is lost a silk kerchief. But Lin Tai-yue would not let her continue, and taking up the thread, she forthwith said: With quiet silence, it enshrouds the raised kiosque. Hsiang-yuen vehemently gave the antithetical verse: The utter poor clings to his pannier and his bowl.
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