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She could deepen it with chestnut trimmings, all toning up together to one rich, bright harmony. Her hair was "blond cendré," not the red-golden of Alice Craike's; but the same subtle rule of art was available; "café-au-lait" was her shade; and the darker velvet just deepened and emphasized the effect.
Camilla dear, that Miss Scrymgeour has edged her China crape with the very ribbon trimmings black satin with pearl edge we saw in that new shop in Princes Street yesterday: sixpenny width at the bottom, and three-three-farthings round the bodice. Perhaps you can tell me, Mr. Ducie, if it's really true that ribbon trimmings are the height in London and Bath this year?"
The meat was cut into long strips, laid upon a grate or hurdle constructed of green sticks, and dried over a slow wood fire fed with bones and the trimmings of the hide of the animal. By this means an excellent flavour was imparted to the meat and a fine red colour.
On her arm was a basket that held little bundles of handmade trimmings, a few hair chains, and hair bracelets. She gave her message to an old maidservant, whom she met in the yard, and who went in and told the housewife. The housewife answered sharply: "Go straight back and tell her that Ingmar Ingmarsson is just going to drive to church; he has no time to talk with her."
Here, in spite of the trimmings and the frillings, it refuses to be subdued and the clamour and the clatter of it are loud above all other sounds as sometimes the thunder of disorganised engines stops conversations along the decks of a liner, and in the inquiring eyes of the passengers you read the question 'This thing is made and paid to bear us to port quietly.
At this point I want to interpose with one word to the reader to beg him not to regard this as either a connected narrative of crime, much less a regular essay with proper deductions the trimmings to the joint but only a series of observations as I recall events which impressed me, and which I think may come home with some force to a happier generation that knew neither Parnellism nor crime.
The landlady having done, he said he must now see the lodger who slept in the next bed-chamber. Mr. Deluc made his appearance, standing at the door of the room, and turning away his head with horror from the sight inside. He was wrapped in a splendid blue dressing-gown, with a golden girdle and trimmings.
Cover the bottom and sides of a deep dish with one sheet of it, and put in your meat, having seasoned it with pepper, salt, nutmeg, and mace. Pour in the gravy which you have prepared from the trimmings, and two glasses of port or claret, and lay on the top some hits of butter rolled in flour.
It was of mellow old brick with white trimmings and a white door, and at the left, where the eastern sun would beat, a white veranda. It came up into a kindly gambrel roof and there were dormers. Lydia saw already how fascinating those chambers must be. There was a trellis over the door and jessamine swinging from it. The birds in the shrubbery were eloquent.
Knowing, as we do, every plant and its place, having taken just pride in its summer bloom, having preserved this by cares and trimmings and proppings to a picturesque and florid autumn, though wild-flowers have long been shrivelled and shapeless, having tidied it up and put a little something comforting round it when bloom and outline were absolutely no more: what must we feel when we first detect the ruddy young shoots of our favourite pæonies, or perceive that the brown old hepaticas have become green and young again and are full of flower-buds?
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