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She had rushed to Madame Imogen's room, and got her to take special messages to the chef, and dinner would be waited on by her own maid with Nicholas just to run in and open the champagne. Then she selected a ravishing rose-pink chiffon tea-gown, all lacy and fresh, and lastly she had a big fire made up and all the curtains drawn, and so she awaited Henry's coming with anticipations of delight.
Then, when she seemed to have recovered herself, he gave her a tragic-comic account of the three weeks' engagement, and the manner in which it had been broken off: caustic enough, one might have thought, to satisfy the most unfriendly listener. Daphne heard it all quietly. Then her maid came, and she donned a tea-gown. When Roger returned, after dressing, he found her still abstracted.
It's being Northerners that really has been such a drawback." "But your sympathies," urged Faraday, "aren't they with the North?" Miss. Ryan ran the pearl fringe of her tea-gown through her large, handsome hands.
She was wearing a loose tea-gown of peacock-blue plush over a satin petticoat of the palest rose-color a daring combination which she had managed to harmonise extremely well and the fan which she now held to her mouth was of pale rose-colored feathers.
In this, as our American afternoon teas have been managed, the American young lady was right, for it is not convenable, according to European ideas, to wear a loose flowing robe of the tea-gown pattern out of one's bedroom or boudoir. It has been done by ignorant people at a watering-place, but it never looks well. It is really an undress, although lace and satin may be used in its composition.
Montague, frowning, for the girl, who so closely resembled the rival she hated, coming to her just at that moment, irritated her exceedingly. "I simply upset something just as you knocked. What do you want?" "I only came to ask if I should finish your tea-gown in the morning, or do the mending, as usual;" Mona replied. "Finish the tea-gown. I shall need it for the afternoon."
The handsome house in its brilliant setting of lawns and trees, the wide verandah with its crimson Mount Washington rockers, luxurious hammocks, and low table covered with freshly-cut magazines, the pleasant-faced man who was her nearest of kin, and his graceful wife in a tea-gown of soft summer silk with rich lace about her throat and wrists, her cousins in their dainty muslins, and Russell in his fresh summer suit.
When Olga reappeared, she was gorgeous in flowing tea-gown; her tawny hair hung low in artful profusion; her neck and arms were bare, her feet brilliantly slippered. "Ah! How good, how good, it is to sit down and talk to you once more! Do you like my room?" "You have made yourself very comfortable," replied Otway, striking a note as much as possible in contrast to that of his hostess.
John was to go out to meet the gentleman, or was the gentleman to come to his rooms?" "To his rooms, I think, miss." She was wearing her blue tea-gown, stretched out on the cushions of one of the big divans in the silent drawing-room, when she heard Jack's night-key touch the lock. Springing to her feet she ran toward him. "Why, Jack, what's this I hear about your not coming to my dance?
She wore yellow and purple because she thought it better, as she said, while one was about it, to look like the Queen of Sheba than like a revendeuse; she put pearls in her hair and crimson and gold in her tea-gown for the same reason: it was her theory that nature itself had overdressed her and that her only course was to drown, as it was hopeless to try to chasten, the overdressing.
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