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Porne?" and she stood up, taking out her handkerchief. "Certainly," said Mrs. Porne, "with pleasure! You won't find any!" Mrs. Dankshire climbed heavily upon a carefully selected chair and passed her large clean plain-hemmed handkerchief across the top of a picture. "I knew it!" she proclaimed proudly from her eminence, and showed the cloth still white.
Meanwhile, with a pair of gloves on, and a little plain-hemmed three-cornered, dotted-muslin cap tied over her hair with a muslin bow behind, mother had let down the ashes, it isn't a bad thing to do with a well-contrived stove, and set the pan, to which we had a duplicate, into the out-room, for Stephen to carry away.
It's all my fault. I am such a plain-hemmed creature myself that I forgot your frills. You must fasten it up at once or you may trip. I can give you some pins, and there is a little summer-house at the end of the path, where you can sit down and fasten it properly. I'll stand before the door and screen you from the public gaze."
She descended beside him like a softly accompanying white cloud; her dress was of tulle, without a hitch or a puff or a festoon about it. It had two skirts, I believe, but they were plain-hemmed, and fell like a mist about her figure.
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