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"I'm lying on your bed because Maude had the laundry all over mine. Are you going to lie down?" "No, my dear!" said Harriet, in an odd, breathy whisper. "You DID run upstairs!" murmured Nina. She sat up, and put her bare feet on the floor, groping for slippers, and yawned, with a red face. "What time is it?"
Gwendolyn whirled. This was the moment, if ever, to make her wish known to assert her will. With a running patter of slippers, she cut off Miss Royle's progress. "That tall building 'way, 'way down on the sky," she panted. "Yes, dear?" with a simper. "Is that where my father is?" The smirk went. Miss Royle stared down. "Er why?" she asked.
Thereupon they all struggled to get at Grandier, threatening to tear him limb from limb, to point out his marks, to strangle him although he was their master; whereupon he seized a chance to say he was neither their master nor their servant, and that it was incredible that they should in the same breath acknowledge him for their master and express a desire to strangle him: on hearing this, the frenzy of the nuns reached its height, and they kicked their slippers into his face.
At length he mustered courage to grasp a greasy-looking red tassel, and give a gentle tinkle to the bell. The door was quickly opened by Agamemnon in dirty loose trousers and slippers, and without a coat.
Suddenly I felt that He was there, and joy, mad joy took possession of me. I got up softly, and I walked to the right and left for some time, so that He might not guess anything; then I took off my boots and put on my slippers carelessly; then I fastened the iron shutters and going back to the door quickly I double-locked it with a padlock, putting the key into my pocket.
Amanda produced her Shakspeare, and read aloud while the simmering and sipping went on. Matilda sketched the noble commander as she lay upon the sofa, with her Egyptian profile in fine relief, and her aristocratic red slippers gracefully visible.
A pair of black list slippers explained the silence of his approach. 'Put that back, young lady, said he severely. Poor Maude held out her guilty relic on the palm of her hand. 'I am so sorry, said she. 'I am afraid I cannot put it back. 'We'll 'ave the 'ole church picked to pieces at this rate, said the clerk. 'You shouldn't 'ave done it, and it was very wrong. He snorted and shook his head.
A rock, broad and flat, extended into the stream by the partial, diagonal dam that turned the water into Myrtle Forge; and Ludowika found a seat with her slippers just above the current. Howat Penny sat beside her, then dropped back on the rocks, his hands clasped behind his head. A silence intensified by the whispering stream enveloped them.
Sunk in profound reverie he sat there silent under the great, smooth palm-tree a venerable figure in his yellow dressing-gown and carpet slippers. Seated side by side, we waited, a trifle awed. I could hear the soft breathing of the pretty stenographer beside me. "First of all," said Professor Farrago, looking up, "I must be able to trust those who are here to aid me."
Everything was black hat, dress, gloves and the effect was of a simplicity and severity so pronounced as to be very striking. However, around her waist she wore as a belt a thick rope of oxidized silver, while her shoes, or rather walking slippers, were of white canvas.
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