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Away went Tom Walker, dashing down the streets, his white cap bobbing up and down, his morning-gown fluttering in the wind, and his steed striking fire out of the pavement at every bound. When the clerks turned to look for the black man, he had disappeared. Tom Walker never returned to foreclose the mortgage.
Are you quite well?" "I hardly know. I have slept too long, I believe." She opened the shutters, and, shading her eyes from the glare with her hand, appeared on the balcony. She was in the flower of youth, slight, supple, and graceful, and appeared, in her ample morning-gown of blue cashmere, plumper and taller than she really was.
Was Helena realising that she had placed herself in a false position? Or had she become aware of his intention to leave her and was anxious to win him back? When they met at the breakfast table on the following morning, Helena was unusually gentle, and the professor noticed that she was wearing a new morning-gown trimmed with lace, which suited her admirably.
And so, seated on a cloth before Blaise's saddle, Harry Esmond was brought to London, and to a fine square called Covent Garden, near to which his patron lodged. Mr. Holt, the priest, took the child by the hand, and brought him to this nobleman, a grand languid nobleman in a great cap and flowered morning-gown, sucking oranges. He patted Harry on the head and gave him an orange.
“We rushed to the window terrible and fearful voices rang across from the empty house; we fancied we saw the old Counsellor, pursued by his image in the morning-gown, hurry past the window repeatedly. On a sudden all was quiet. “We gazed on each other; the boldest among us proposed to cross over to the house we all agreed to it.
"Oh, it will be far handsomer before it is done. Mrs Howell has found up some beautiful pieces of print for us remnants of her first morning-gown after she was married, and of her poor dear Howell's last dressing-gown, as she says. We were quite sorry to take those; but she would put them up for us; and she is to see the quilt sometimes in return."
And the poor mother wept joyfully over her till Patsy's nice morning-gown hung about her all limp and bedripped. "Thank you thank you, dear," she said, when she had recovered a little of her voice; "I feel that my boy is saved." "I can only do what I can, but remember, I am not going to be married offhand either to Louis or anybody else.
So he crammed a great silver watch into his fob, and drew on a patchwork morning-gown of an ancient fashion.
Well, now I am going to," she said, half to herself. "That settles it!" She accompanied Jane half-way down the steps, bareheaded as she was, and in her morning-gown. A society reporter who happened to be passing originated the rumor that she had gone insane. "Good-luck, my child. Use my name everywhere. Take all that anybody offers. Good-by! Good-by!" Jane retraced her steps to kiss her.
He had exchanged his riding-coat for a handsome morning-gown, his boots for slippers; had been at great pains to atone for the having been obliged to make his toilet when he rose without the aid of dressing-case and tiring equipage; and, having gradually forgotten through these means the discomforts of an indifferent night and an early ride, was in a state of perfect complacency, indolence, and satisfaction.
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