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When the children saw this, the boy threw behind him a comb which made a great hill of combs with a thousand times a thousand teeth, but the nix managed to keep herself steady on them, and at last crossed over that. Then the girl threw behind her a looking-glass which formed a hill of mirrors, and was so slippery that it was impossible for the nix to cross it.
The looking-glass reflected a charming face, somewhat excited, the colour coming and going, but still a fascinating face, with wonderful soft, velvety eyes... "I? I am bad?" she thought again.... "With such eyes?" But at this moment her husband entered the room and she again covered her face with her pocket-handkerchief. "What is the matter with you?" he asked anxiously.
The French are always before the looking-glass, even when they eat and drink. I never went into a restaurant without seeing four or five facsimiles of myself approaching from as many different`directions, giving the order to the waiter and sitting down at the table.
She took it for granted, as she did those other gifts, of health and youth, and, on the whole, she gave it very little thought. It was therefore the more remarkable that she should have just been spending a good half-hour before the looking-glass.
About the same period he was frequently caught by the London butler before the looking-glass. He had always been a smart man in his dress, but he was now more particular. He would spoil three white cravats when he went out of an evening, before he could satisfy himself as to the tie. He also bought a 'Peerage, and it became his favourite study at odd quarters of an hour.
A hurrying throng scuffles by in the gloom. The tolling grows fainter, the throng thinner. "Good land! Is she going to be all night? Wish 't I hadn't proposed it. That's the worst of taking a woman anyplace. Fuss and fiddle by the hour in front of the looking-glass. Em! Well, I didn't hear you. How much long Oh, I know about 'Hour' you mean.... Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Conklin? Hello, Fred.
Some few persons even got a fragment of the looking-glass in their hearts, and this was very terrible, for their hearts became cold like a lump of ice. A few of the pieces were so large that they could be used as window-panes; it would have been a sad thing to look at our friends through them.
All he desires in a wife if he desires one is an inanimate and accommodating looking-glass, in whom he may see what he conceives to be his own image daily. James, you may take the mare home. I'm going to drive with Mr. Vane." She stroked Pepper's nose while Austen undid the hitch-rope from around his neck.
God pitied the helplessness of these ignorant and uncourageous whites and led them to Looking-Glass Mountain, North Carolina, where He caused corn and game to be created, and while this race endured it lived in plenty.
Thence home to dinner, and then come the looking-glass man to set up the looking-glass I bought yesterday, in my dining-room, and very handsome it is. So abroad by coach to White Hall, and there to the Committee of Tangier, and then the Fishing. Mr.
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