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"You have not asked why I left Golfney Place," suggested Bridget, leaning forward in her chair and digging the ferrule of her sunshade into the turf. "I fancy I know," said Jimmy. "You lacked courage to face old Faversham." "Oh, how abominably I treated him!" murmured Bridget. "There is not the least doubt about it," Jimmy admitted.
The stage driver good-naturedly pulled up his horses, lifted the excited little creature down, opened the door, and helped her in, putting the lilacs and the pink sunshade beside her. "We've had a great trip," he said, "and we've got real well acquainted, haven't we? You won't forget about Milltown?" "Never!" she exclaimed fervently; "and you're sure you won't, either?" "Never!
I am obliged to submit to it, but I can't accept it. My cousin is the embodiment of the anti-tradition. You say marry her. That is like inviting the Pope to ally himself with the Antipope." "No, no," contended Susanna, arresting her sunshade in the midst of an intricate vermiculation.
She lay among splashes of sunshine on the red cushions in the punt, a little curled-up figure of white, with her sweet pale animated face warmed by the reflection of her red sunshade, and her eyes like little friendly heavens.
The third was surveying its own small feet with great interest, sucking at a fat thumb as though it conveyed some delicious nourishment. "Do I speak to Mrs. Gray?" asked Lady Anne, advancing. She had a sunshade over her head, a deep-fringed thing with a folding handle. She had bought it in Paris in the days of the Second Empire. Mrs.
"Yes," nodded Dorothy; "when it's nice and warm and sleepy, like to-day, she takes a book, and a pillow, and a sunshade, and she goes and lies in the old boat under the Water-stairs.
The next day they took the steamboat down the Orne, intending to reach Etretat by way of Havre. Just as they were moving off an elderly gentleman under a large white sunshade, and carrying his hat in his hand, was seen leisurely walking down the wharf at some distance, but obviously making for the boat. 'A gentleman! said the mate. 'Who is he? said the captain. 'An English, said Clementine.
She is dressed in white, with a gold-and-white sunshade, and yellow gloves and boots, and she has a gold reticule in her hand. Is that she?" Ralph Martin admitted that it was she. On the other hand, Balsamo did not admit that he had seen her an hour earlier and had made an appointment with her. There was a quiet knock on the door. Ralph started.
And then, as they stood side by side in the dismal little area, he looked vainly for a bell. Finally, he rapped so smartly at the door with Anna's sunshade that they distinctly heard an irate voice say, "Drat their imperence," and a tall, bony-looking woman, in a flowered gingham dress and a very red face, bounced out on them.
She lay back in the fly tasting in the pure air, the keen joy of returning health, and she thrilled a little at the delight of an expensive white muslin and a black sash which accentuated the smallness of her waist. She liked her little brown shoes and brown stockings and the white sunshade through whose strained silk the red sun showed.
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