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When Miss Nellie reached the first mining extension of Indian Spring, which surrounded it like a fosse, she descended for one instant into one of its trenches, opened her parasol, removed her duster, hid it under a bowlder, and with a few shivers and cat-like strokes of her soft hands not only obliterated all material traces of the stolen cream of Carquinez Woods, but assumed a feline demureness quite inconsistent with any moral dereliction.

Two or three times in the course of the narrative, the matron had some difficulty in preserving the gravity of her countenance. After meditating a few minutes, she tapped Van Twiller softly on the arm with the tip of her parasol, and invited him to return with her the next day up the Hudson and make a brief visit at the home of his ancestors.

Those to her mother contained little else than that they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers had attended them, and where she had seen such beautiful ornaments as made her quite wild; that she had a new gown, or a new parasol, which she would have described more fully, but was obliged to leave off in a violent hurry, as Mrs.

The tumult thickened; I caught glimpses of the jockey-cap of old Christy, like the helmet of a chieftain, bobbing about in the midst of the scuffle; while Mrs. Hannah, separated from her doughty protector, was squalling and striking at right and left with a faded parasol; being tossed and tousled about by the crowd in such wise as never happened to maiden gentlewoman before.

From the landing on a still morning in late July, Mrs. Drelmer surveyed the fleet of sailing and steam yachts at anchor in Newport harbour. She was beautifully and expensively gowned in nun's grey chiffon; her toque was of chiffon and lace, and she held a pale grey parasol, its ivory handle studded with sapphires.

I could not endure to mar the prospect by looking at it through a veil, and found my parasol quite sufficient protection against the rays of the sun. The kafila, which we had passed the preceding evening, overtook us soon after we started.

Lean a little this way." But at last he took possession of the parasol, to hold it himself. "It is you who do not hold it right; and then it tires you. Besides, we are almost there now." In the parched plain they could already perceive an island of verdure, an enormous clump of trees.

Halicarnassus obeyed the hint which I pricked into him with the point of my parasol, and stopped outside. The one place in the world where a man has no business to be is the inside of a dry-goods shop. He never looks and never is so big and bungling as there. A woman skips from silk to muslin, from muslin to ribbons, from ribbons to table-cloths with the grace and agility of a bird.

Clatworthy is so ungallant " began Miss Sophia, jabbing with the point of her parasol at a crevice in the flagstones of the verandah. "Fie, dear!" cried Ma'amselle Julie, interrupting. "Well, at any rate, the mazzards are ripe," said Miss Sophia, "and I see no fun in waiting." "So that's the maid," said Susannah to herself, and pitied her having herself no great admiration for Dr.

What Father Peter did not like about the girl was her independent mind, which displayed itself in every gesture, in the way she hopped over the stile, and the manner with which she toyed with her parasol a parasol that seemed a little out of keeping with her position, it is true. A very fine parasol it was; a blue silk parasol.