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The former was about one or two and twenty, and remarkably handsome and distinguished strikingly so with a very white skin, intensely black hair and eyes, a tall, slender, lithe figure, shown to advantage by the rich costume of tan-coloured velvet he wore; and well-formed feet, with high, arched insteps, small and delicate enough for a woman's that more than one woman had envied him encased in dainty, perfectly fitting boots, made of white Russia leather.
'A skin-tight indigo silk Jersey bodice, closely studded with dark blue beads, a flounced petticoat of indigo and amber foulard, an amber scarf drawn tightly round the hips, and a dark blue toque with a largo bunch of amber poppies. Tan-coloured mousquetaire gloves, and Hessian boots of tan-coloured kid. 'Hessian boots! ejaculated Lesbia.
Somewhere out yonder, he reflected, as he leaned on the rail, this southern moonlight was flooding whatever scene she looked on; the lapping of the same sea was in her ears; and his future and hers might be dependent upon those two perplexed tan-coloured greyhounds below. By which one would have said that matters had been going briskly forward with St.
And then she did come, running down in her tan-coloured frock and black velvet cap, and passed him into the drawing-room. He saw her kiss her mother, her aunt, Val's wife, Imogen, and then come forth, quick and pretty as ever. How would she treat him at this last moment of her girlhood? He couldn't hope for much! Her lips pressed the middle of his cheek. "Daddy!" she said, and was past and gone.
But he made out, through this disorder, where he had put down his hat; his stick and his new tan-coloured gloves they had cost two-and-thruppence and would have represented sacrifices were on the chair beside it He picked these articles up and all silently and softly gasping, that is, but quite on tiptoe reached the door and let himself out.
King James, as I intended to say earlier, was a fierce, two-hundred-pound, sunburned, blond man, as pink as an October strawberry, and with two horizontal slits under shaggy red eyebrows for eyes. On that day he wore a flannel shirt that was tan-coloured, with the exception of certain large areas which were darkened by transudations due to the summer sun.
Then she unlocked her own door, and tearing off the blue wrapper, put on the tan-coloured linen suit Violet had bought in a sale, for five dollars. It was a tight fit for the red silk bundle, but she squeezed it in, and added the big pearl found in Peterson's room. She would also have tucked in the Yale key, but the bag refused to shut, and she kept the key in her hand.
Does she wear a tan-coloured cloth suit, and a hat with coque feathers?" "Yes, she does! Now will you come?" "Where? Who are you? I mean, may I ask your name?" "I am Miss Grayson, a motion-picture actress " "Yes, yes, where are you? Where shall I come?" "To my home in New York City." She gave him the address.
These decorations were bordered with lines of white, black, and red. At the bases of the wings were long, snowy silken hairs; the legs were purple, and the antennae resembled small, tan-coloured ferns. That is the best I can do at description. A living moth must be seen to form a realizing sense of its shape and delicacy of colour.
He did not hear the order she gave, but the saleswoman was pleasantly smiling as she checked it. The next thing that happened, Bob was being measured. Then he was trying on Russian blouse suits that fitted, practical little garments of blue galatea, of tan-coloured linen crash, even of brown holland. Burns looked on approvingly.
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