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And she made Johnson garb her in her loveliest teagown, and then she went to the blue salon. And amidst the laughter and fun they had talking of their adventure, no one but Stephen Strong remarked the feverish unrest in her eyes, or the bright, hectic flush in her cheeks. When night came and she was alone again, her thoughts made a hell; she could not sleep; she paced her room.
She changed her evening gown for a teagown, and then said she would sit up for an hour or so and write letters, and I needn't wait." "You left her then?" "Yes, sir." "Did Miss Lloyd wear any flowers at dinner last evening?" "No, sir. There were no guests only the family." "Ah, quite so. But did she, by chance, pin on any flowers after she went to her room?" "Why, yes, sir; she did.
She confessed to an immense passion for so lowly a dish as stewed prunes, she memorialized upon dogs and horses that had belonged to her. Had I really and truly liked the teagown she wore the other night? Would I cross my heart to that effect? Well, then, she had made it all herself in a day.
At the further end two women were seated close together in conversation, and I distinctly heard the name 'Fuge'. One of them was Mrs Brindley, in a hat. The other, a very big and stout woman, in an elaborate crimson garment that resembled a teagown, rose and came to meet me with extended hand. 'My wife Mr Loring, said Mr Oliver Colclough.
She had on a pink teagown trimmed with white lace, and her fair head, her white neck and her plump hands stood out from that coquettish and perfumed dress as though it were a sea shell edged with foam. What fun they must be making of him, if he had been their dupe since the first day! Was it possible to make a fool of a man, of a worthy man, because his father had left him a little money?
Churches, comfort! Irredeemable hideousness and the comfort of congregations as a set-off to it." Mrs. Ascher panted. I could see the front of her dress she wore a very floppy scarlet teagown rising and falling rapidly in the intensity of her passion. I understood more or less what she felt.
He followed her into the hall and up the stairs to the drawing-room, where she left him while she went to her room to take off her outdoor garments. He moved aimlessly about until she returned. She had changed her clothes, and was wearing a loose golden silk teagown with a girdle round it, and the gold in her hair seemed to be enriched by the gold in her dress.
I accordingly donned my best teagown, arranged my hair, and proceeded towards the drawing-room. My way there lay through the great central hall. This apartment was approached from most of the bedrooms in the house through a large, arched doorway at one end of it, which communicated directly with the great staircase.
She ruins dinner parties and is the vampire of the moving pictures. And after living a respectable life for years she either goes on living a respectable life, and stays with her sister's children while the family goes on a motor tour, or takes to serving high-balls instead of afternoon tea, while wearing a teagown of some passionate shade.
Waythorn's charming face when she presently joined him. Though she had put on her most engaging teagown she had neglected to assume the smile that went with it, and Waythorn thought he had never seen her look so nearly worried. "What is it?" he asked. "Is anything wrong with Lily?" "No; I've just been in and she's still sleeping." Mrs. Waythorn hesitated. "But something tiresome has happened."
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