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It knows its voice will never wilfully go unanswered so long as the element of chance lies concealed within it. Mrs. Emma McChesney heard the call of her telephone across the hall. Seated in the office of her business partner, T.A. Buck, she was fathoms deep in discussion of the T.A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company's new spring line.
A few moments of desultory conversation that was of no interest to Paul and then the Count proposed a game of écarté, to which Verdayne and Ledoux assented readily enough. But not so our Boy! Ecarté! Bah! When did a boy of twenty ever want to play cards within sound of the rustle of a petticoat? and such a petticoat!
'Will you be showing the way, young 'ooman, said Mrs Jenkins, rising majestically and smoothing down a very handsome silk dress, which she had carefully taken up before she sat down. Owen's wrath was turned to amusement 'Did you think we hadn't a duster in the house, aunt? I can tell you you've pretty well dirtied that white petticoat.
All the bystanders waited anxiously to see the end of the case, and presently both man and woman came back at even closer grips than before, she with her petticoat up and the purse in the lap of it, and he struggling hard to take it from her, but all to no purpose, so stout was the woman's defence, she all the while crying out, "Justice from God and the world! see here, senor governor, the shamelessness and boldness of this villain, who in the middle of the town, in the middle of the street, wanted to take from me the purse your worship bade him give me."
The terrified Queen threw herself out of bed; they put a petticoat upon her without tying it, and the two ladies conducted her towards the oile-de-boeuf. A door, which led from the Queen's dressing-room to that apartment, had never before been fastened but on her side. What a dreadful moment! It was found to be secured on the other side.
"Ma foi! it is a malediction that you must always have a petticoat tacked to your doublet!" "Ah, dear Agrippa," replied the man who had spoken first, "it is so great a grief to part from one you love." "On my soul, you make me swear to hear you talk! Did you come to Paris to make love?
From the challenging smile on her lips to the point of the little shoe which peeped out beneath her petticoat, there came an invitation to Captain Twinely a suggestion that he, too, should sit gracefully on the grass. "Now, Una," she said, "go and have your bathe, if you must do anything so foolish. We will wait for you here, the captain will amuse me till you return.
"There you are, Dorothy!" said I, laughing from the doorway; and, "Oh, Cousin Ormond!" they all chorused, scrambling up to greet me. "Have a care!" cried Dorothy. "That is my wedding petticoat! Oh, he's slopped water on it! Benny, you dreadful villain!" "No, he hasn't," said I, coming out to greet her and Cecile, with Samuel and Benny hanging to my belt, and Harry fast hold of one arm.
Come along, Trite!" he exclaimed, in a gruff voice which sounded not altogether unlike that of old Ben Yool's as he looked over the bows; and presently he handed up a lady of very ample dimensions, who certainly, except for a petticoat and a necklace of shells, I should not have suspected to have belonged to the fair sex. "Oh, there you are, my lovie!
"Is she not? Yes," he cried suddenly, as he saw a scarlet petticoat gleaming in the distance, and a bright young face under a little black turban hat prettiest and most bewitching of all feminine headgear, let fashion change as it may. "Yes," he cried, "she is the loveliest creature in the world, and I love her to distraction."
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