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It used to be the custom for men to wear satin knickerbockers and lace ruffles over their wrists, but some one was sensible enough or irreverent enough " she tucked in good-naturedly, "to object and you're the gainer. There! How's that for an answer? Doesn't solitaire win?"
When he had read this, Lee gently tilted and shook the envelope. But no diamond solitaire dropped out. They were waiting in the sheriff's office in the court house in Bartolo. They were waiting for Mr. Menocal. Winship had sent a messenger for him.
"I'm the old man's granddaughter," said Zillah, brusquely. "Now, I'll tell you why I was upset by seeing your platinum stud. A solitaire stud, made of platinum, and ornamented with exactly the same device as yours, was found in our parlour after my grandfather's death and another, evidently the fellow to it, was found in an eating-house, close by.
"Will you hand me my solitaire cards and, for Heaven's sake! stop kicking the lacquer off the andirons." "Oh, I beg your pardon." "Of course you understand what I mean. It isn't the andirons, but the sight of your aggressively vigorous legs that moves me to childish wrath. To be tied down here like a trussed pigeon! Better leave me to my solitaire. I'll be more civilized after luncheon."
"Nothing." "Gentlemen, be brilliant for my first number. The Baron du Chatelet and his cuttlefish bone will not last for a week, and the writer of Le Solitaire is worn out." "And 'Sosthenes-Demosthenes' is stale too," said Vernou; "everybody has taken it up." "The fact is, we want a new set of ninepins," said Frederic.
Grandon is looking her best, a handsome, middle-aged woman. Madame Lepelletier is in an exquisite shade of bluish velvet that brings out every line and tint in a sumptuous manner. The square-cut corsage and elbow sleeves are trimmed with almost priceless ivory-tinted lace; and except the solitaire diamonds in her ears, she wears no jewels.
And and, well, what I mean is, it strikes me as a very sensible arrangement. Why are we stopping here?" The car had drawn up before a large house on the upper avenue, one of those houses which advertise affluence with as little reticence as a fat diamond solitaire. "We live here," said Ruth, laughing. Kirk drew a long breath. "Do we? By George!" he exclaimed.
The prospect, however, appeared cloudy and comfortless, and I was now to reside for an indefinite period at the only place, much as I did love the spot, where I ever felt myself to be in the midst of strangers. Here, apparently, I was another being than when at Eton reserved, gloomy and distrustful cold and unfeeling wandering about the place like a solitaire, as I was.
The hand returned to the chair-arm with a play of light upon the solitaire it bore. The smile broadened. "You were caught. Confess, and the sentence will be lighter." As a wave recedes, the red flood began to ebb from the girl's face. "I confess, then. I was thinking." "And I was forgotten. My statement was correct." She looked up, and the two smiled companionably. "Admitted. I await the penalty."
It was a strange hour that she spent in the old sitting room, in the cool, stale, home odours, with the home pictures, the jointed gas brackets under which she had played solitaire and the square piano where she had sung "The Two Grenadiers."
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