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"One of the Dolans of Maryland, you say, Pemberton? Dear me! I used to visit Dolan Hall when I was a girl. Such a beautiful old Colonial home! Is it still standing?" she said, turning to Dan. "I I don't know, ma'am," stammered Dan, who found the gleam of the gold lorgnettes most confusing. "What does he say?" asked the old lady sharply. "That he does not know, mother dear!" answered dad.
Sometimes society circles are merely disturbed. But they are always active. Society circles are always running around waving lorgnettes and exclaiming, "Dear me, and what do you think of this? I am all agog." The police are combing the city for a woman in black last seen with the prominent Mr. Cotton in a notorious café. But a man is to be hanged in the County Jail.
I saw him riding and cheering his men on when he must have had at least half a dozen wounds in his body. You will pardon me, Duchess? I see that my party are waiting." The General hurried away. The Duchess shut up her lorgnettes with a snap, and held out her hand to a newcomer who had come from behind the palms. "My dear Prince," she exclaimed, "this is charming of you!
The colour had flooded her cheeks, her tired eyes were suddenly bright; was it with fear or only surprise? The Baroness wasted no time in asking questions. She raised her lorgnettes and turned round, facing the direction in which Louise was looking. Coming directly towards them from the further end of the restaurant was a young man, whose eyes never swerved from their table.
Then the president commands his minion to place it tenderly in his buttonhole." "Look at the sea of faces ... lorgnettes, too. The minion dassen't." "Oh, that we two were Maying!" "You misread our announcement," said Beverley Byrd, romping up. "No opening for young men here, Gardy! Butt out." West left her, his well-shaped head in something of a whirl.
From the South returned that opera troupe whose manager is never in despair, whose tenor never sulks, whose prima donna never fails, and in the orchard bonâ fide matinées were held, to which buttercups and clovers crowded in their prettiest spring hats, and verdant young blades twinkled their dewy lorgnettes, as they bowed and made way for the floral belles.
And every character I made to talk clap-trap sentiment while Pyramids purred, and I took care that everyone of my puppets did that which was right in the eyes of the lady with the lorgnettes in the second row of the dress circle; and old Hewson says the play will run five hundred nights. "But what is worst," concluded Dick, "is that I am not ashamed of myself, and that I seem content."
Escape was quite out of the question, and in half a dozen strokes of the oar we were alongside and close under the battery of the lorgnettes. "Elizabeth," she began in her most ponderous manner, ignoring my presence altogether, "Elizabeth, child, I blush for you." "Then, Aunt, please don't," cried Lisbeth; "I can do quite enough of that for myself.
Sleek, soap-scented, slim a satire on the satyr and the haberdasher's latest dash. "Hello, Sweetness!" "How are you, Charley?" "Here, gimme your little hand. Shake." She placed her palm in his, quivering. You of the classes, peering through lorgnettes into the strange world of the masses, spare that shrug.
She considered her young friend a little indiscreet. "I find you amusing, ma chere," she remarked. "Since when have you developed scruples?" Louise turned towards the door. "You do not understand," she said. "Come!" The Baroness lowered her lorgnettes and turned towards Wrayson. "There is a man" she remarked, "in the stalls, who finds us apparently more interesting than the performance.
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