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There was a slight splash; no other sound. As she raised the bundle I saw distinctly that it was something wrapped in a gray and black shawl. I swear before Heaven that no thought of wrong came to my mind; I never dreamed of it.
The only gay things to be seen were the berries on the holly hedge, in the little lane which, running by the end of our back-yard, led up to the Hall and the fat robin, that was staring at me. I was looking at the robin, when Patty, who had been peering out of her corner of Kitty's shawl, gave a great jump that dragged the shawl from our heads, and cried: "'Look! "I looked.
She laid the baby on the wooden settle, covering him with a shawl, then poured the coffee from the earthenware jug into the saucepan, and set it on the spirit lamp to boil. "I'm sleepy," nodded the Child-Who-Was-Tired, kneeling on the floor and splitting the damp pine logs into little chips. "That's why I'm not awake." The oven took a long time to light.
After throwing a shawl over her head, she started off for Longville with the swiftness of a hare; and was soon past the engine-house, and threading her way cautiously through Botfield, where she dreaded to be discovered as she passed the lighted windows, or across the gleam of some open door.
She loved talking to George George who adored her without knowing that she had genius, only that she had sympathy had no idea that she was a great woman, only that she was a charming one. He was looking at her with a worried expression. "June," he said, "you look tired." "Oh, but I'm not a bit." He put her feet up and covered them with a shawl. "I wish you would stop writing," he said.
She had dressed hastily and wore a light shawl over her head, probably to conceal her disordered hair, but her face was blanched to the lips. "Oh, Ralph!" she cried in a trembling voice. "I thought you were never coming. It's terrible terrible!" "Come in here," I said, leading her into the dining room. "Tell me all you know of the affair." "Short discovered him just after two o'clock.
How could she be less primitively honest in the face of one than of the other? He put her in the winged chair, drew the white shawl closely about her shoulders, dropped upon one knee by her side, and, taking possession once more of her hand, spoke low and decidedly: "I will go over to the Macauleys and send Mrs. Macauley to you. Then Mr.
Then the maid sat down and stared at her, and amused herself and fellow-servant with malicious comments on Fan's dress. "May I ask you, miss, where you got that lovely hat?" she said. "From Madame Elise? Why, of course, how could I ask! I assure you it is most charmingly becoming. I shall try to get one like it, but I'm afraid I can't go beyond six guineas. And your shawl a Cashmere, I see.
Lamotte waved off Teeny, the black girl, and taking her traveling bag and shawl, said to her, "This way, s'il vous plait, Mademoiselle Marguerite. Pardonnez moi," she added quickly, as she met Edith's questioning glance, "Mademoiselle Miggie, as la petite Nina calls you." Once in Edith's room, Mrs.
Part of the fore-topsail was wrapped like a shawl round the lee cat-head, while the rest hung down in festoons from the collar of the fore-stay to the spritsail yard-arm.
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