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And a talk with the right listener is so like an arm-in-arm walk in the moonlight with the soft heartbeat just felt through the folds of muslin and broadcloth! But it takes very little to spoil everything for writer, talker, lover. There are a great many cruel things besides poverty that freeze the genial current of the soul, as the poet of the Elegy calls it.
Doors opened on every side, and out they came, one girl after another, so smart and fine that one could hardly recognise them for the blue-serged damsels of ordinary school life. Down the stairs they tripped, with rustlings of silk and crinklings of muslin, dainty white shoes, looking daintier than ever against the well-worn carpet.
He had just reached the counter covered with red-paper muslin; he pushed his way up to the girl with the gray eyes and said something to her. She seemed to shrink away. Indiman turned for an instant and looked back at me, then he bent down and kissed her. Without having had the slightest intention of so doing, I pulled down both handles; the hall was in instant and utter darkness.
Her hair, trained into smooth obedience, was fastened within the muslin cap she had fashioned for herself, tied Quaker fashion under her chin. Her face was very white, as if, having blanched with terror in the tragedy of Haun's Mill, the life-blood had not as yet returned to it. At last she said simply, "I thank you, sir."
I have seen her in the morning tearing away across country by the side of her father, the most passionate and reckless rider to hounds in the county, and in the evening I have come across her, a pretty mass of pink flesh and muslin no, it can't be muslin say chiffon anyhow, something white and filmy and girlish curled up on a sofa and absorbed in a novel of Mrs.
She was standing in the middle of the floor, with one arm crooked as if making believe that another's arm rested on it, and over her head was a little muslin window-blind, representing a bride's veil. Thus she was two persons, but she was also a third, who addressed them in clerical tones. "Ivie McLean," she said as solemnly as tho' she were the Rev. Mr.
There was no sort of help available except that of indoor servants, for whom she had no accommodation. The furniture was their own; it was partly secondhand, but on the whole it seemed cheerful to my eye, and my aunt's bias for cheap, gay-figured muslin had found ample score.
This one had dined at Citizen Raoul Rigault's, the Préfecture of Police; that one attended a performance of "Andromaque" at the Théâtre Français, in the Empress's box, etc. At last it was my turn. The 17th of May was the day of the grand concert at the Tuileries. Oh, my dear little baroness, what had become of you? Where were your long soft muslin petticoats and your fine white satin corsets?
The girl, of course, was hatless. Her dress of fine muslin was of a style and texture seldom seen in Massowah, and if the rare beauty of her face could excite comment in Hyde Park it would surely not pass unnoticed in a small and semi-barbarous Red Sea port. Royson, too, though his white drill uniform was familiar enough to the public, was out of keeping with his surroundings.
"I really don't think that I am at all properly chaperoned. This comes, I suppose, from having acquired a character for independence." Her gown seemed to fill the carriage a little sea of frothy lace and muslin. He hesitated on the pavement. "Shall I ride outside?" he suggested. "I don't want to crush you." She gathered up her skirt at once and made room for him.
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