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She drew a package from the locker and looked at it ruefully. "Well, what do you know about this? Here's a woman who came in in a nightgown and pair of slippers. And now she wants to go out in half an hour!" She turned, on her way out of the locker-room, and shot a quick glance at Sidney. "I happened to be on your street the other night," she said.
He's got a story to tell," he said to the woman, who blushed and put her handkerchief over her face. "Well, it's a fact, that's how it happened," the undertaker declared in a loud voice. "You see the sleeves of her nightgown were tied in hard knots by her rascally brothers. When I tried to unfasten them with my teeth I bit big holes in the sleeves." Clara gripped the arm of her chair.
"Jim, you must be perished such a night as 't is. Oh, Jim where ha' you bin?" She was a miserable figure in her coarse nightgown, with her grizzling hair wild about her, and her thin arms nervously outstretched along the bed.
The warmth of her mother's kitchen when she was a child as snow pelted against the windows; the smell of bacon in the skillet; the smell of coffee and the sight of her mother in a thin nightgown before the stove while her father coughed away, distant and withdrawn behind a newspaper how beautiful her mother was in so many ways in that short time together.
There are limits of liberty in a girls' school, and it was manifestly infeasible, as well as very chilly, to attempt to stray out alone at the stroke of twelve, robed merely in a nightgown, and fetch three pails of water to place by one's bedside.
The room palpitated with white light for two seconds; the mirror on the dressing-table glared supernaturally. Louisa clutched her friend. All was dark again, the thunder clapping directly. 'There, wasn't that lovely! cried Louisa, speaking of the lightning. 'Oo, wasn't it magnificent! glorious! The door clicked and opened: Olive entered in her long white nightgown. She hurried to the bed.
It was pleasant at the school, that book about bones was going to be very interesting. Aunt Olivia was not to worry about the rubbers, and Rebecca Mary would never forget to air her clothes when they came from the wash. Yes, she had aired the nightgown that Aunt Olivia ironed the last thing. No, she hadn't needed any liniment yet, but she wouldn't get any in her eyes.
He had taken off most of her clothes, and put her white nightgown over the rest, that she might sleep warmly in them all the night, for her little hands and feet felt very chilly to his touch. The fire had gone out while they were away, and the grate looked very black and cheerless.
The house was aroused doors were flung open Priscilla rushed from her room half dressed and Innocent ran along the corridor in her little white nightgown, her feet bare, and her hair falling dishevelled over her shoulders. "What is it?" she cried piteously "Oh, do tell me! What is it?"
And they laughed gayly when they assembled. Susan made the best appearance, for her blue serge suit had been taken out dry when she herself was lifted from the sinking wreck; the nightgown served as a blouse. Mabel's trunk had been saved.
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