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Updated: May 15, 2025
Luncheon was already on the table when he entered the dining-room, and Connie, in a green velvet gown and a little green velvet hat ornamented by a twinkling aigrette, was standing by the window looking out restlessly at the falling snow. As he came in she went over to the table and began making tea with nervous hands.
White had had fitted in the Maison Dernier Mot, in Paris; it was an enchanting frock of embroidered white illusion, over pink illusion, over black illusion, under a short heavy tunic of silver spangles and threads. The yoke was of wonderful old lace, and there was a girdle of heavy pink cords, and silver clasps, to match the aigrette that was held by pink and silver cords in Mrs.
The demand for the aigrette constantly increased and rose to hitherto unknown figures. In one State where Bok's measure was pending before the legislature, he heard of the coming of an unusually large shipment of aigrettes to meet this increased demand.
It may be however, that like New York with the heath hen, they will arouse and virtuously lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen! These unfortunate birds, cursed for all time by the commercially valuable "aigrette" plumes that they bear, have had a very narrow escape from total extinction in the United States, despite all the efforts made to save them.
The child wore a crown on her head, the basis of which was black velvet. At the top was an aigrette of diamonds of the purest water, the centre one as large as a sixpenny-piece. Solitaires flashing blue flames blazed all over the cap, and the front was ornamented with a dragon in fine filigree work in red Malay gold set with diamonds.
But the very secretiveness of her manner the suggestion of a hidden motive which dwelt in her nervous movements and even quivered in the little scintillating aigrette on her blonde head aroused in him if not a positive distrust, still a bewildering and decidedly unpleasant confusion of ideas.
"Ve got 'em up to veefty dollars " "Come off it, Cain, come off I ain't purchasin' a diamond aigrette to-day, it's a lady's hair-comb I want good, but not too flossy-lookin' savvy that? This'll do, I guess how much? Right there!" said Spike, flicking a bill upon the counter. "That's it, stick it in a box oh, never mind th' wrappin's. S'long, Daniel!"
"That I know where your diamond star was pledged. Indeed I do. Merritt had probably just turned out his pockets as we entered. The pawnticket was on the table and related to a diamond aigrette pawned by one James Merritt mark the simple cunning of the man with Messrs. Rutter and Co., 117, High Street.
But still Marjorie watched him anxiously, and when the color came back to his face she went behind him and wrapped her arms about his neck and put her mouth to his ear: "I'm just a plain little fool, Uncle Bob, and, as Gray says, I talk through my aigrette.
He was dressed in a pale turquoise silk coat, with dark blue and white and gold turban with diamond aigrette, and white trousers, patent leather shoes, and a long necklace of very large diamonds. He is twenty-one and good-looking, with pleasant expression and a quiet possessed manner. I am almost glad I did not know that he is building such a wonderful palace, or I would have felt oppressed.
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