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It was one of those spring days, full of heat and light, to which the moisture of recent rains imparts a strange softness and melancholy. The air was warm, perfumed by fresh flowers which, on that first day of heat, gave forth their fragrance eagerly, like violets hidden in a muff. Through its long, open windows the room in which they were inhaled all those intoxicating odors.
"Do you know, Charley?" cried Tom Channing, who was one of the seniors of the school. "Where's the good of asking that wretched little muff?" burst forth Gerald Yorke. "He's only a girl. How do you know it was not one of the lay-clerks, Bywater? They carry ink in their pockets, I'll lay. Or any of the masons might have gone into the vestry, for the matter of that."
It consists of three magnificent black fox skins smooth and lustrous as jet, except for the snowy tips of the brushes. Two of the pelts go to the neck-piece, while the third the most beautiful skin that ever came out of the north in the opinion of these experienced furriers makes the muff. Mr.
OVER the tea-table Justine forgot the note in her muff; but when she went upstairs to dress it fell to the floor, and she picked it up and laid it on her dressing-table. She had already recognized the hand as Wyant's, for it was not the first letter she had received from him.
"For my little Melicent" was what the writing said. Was the fan really hers? Perhaps the parasol was hers too, the coral beads, the muff and tippet! All sorts of delightful possibilities whirled through her brain, as she tossed and tumbled the parcels in the chest out on to the floor. Then an overcoat and some men's clothes folded smoothly.
Blyth, as much as to say, "You can't mistake that, I think?" Impossible! old Lady Brambledown, with her muff and snuff-box, to the very life. Close on the Dowager Countess followed a visitor of low degree.
"We kept each other's courage up, didn't we, Mr. Temple? It was like arctic explorers. I was beginning to think we should have to make a camp and cook my muff for tea." She held out the sable and Vernon laid it on the couch when he had held it to his face for a moment.
"Mamma has never mentioned the subject to me," said Lady Queenie in response to a question, looking at her rich muff. "This is a question of principle," said somebody sharply, implying that at last individual consciences were involved and that the opinions of the Marchioness of Lechford had ceased to weigh. "I'm afraid it's getting late," said the impassive chairman.
Joan had once leaned in a doorway, silent and unconsulted, while two men, her father and Pierre, settled their property rights in her. Betty was, after all, in no better case. She listened, whiter and whiter, till at the last she slowly raised her muff and pressed it against her twisted mouth.
Diane bowed in return, keeping her own hands securely in her small black muff. "Won't you sit down?" Without changing his position he indicated the large leathern chair on the other side of the hearth. Diane sat down on the very edge erect, silent, submissive.
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