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But if he was not dissatisfied, what was going to happen? "It'll save us both trouble, and me most. I'm not one of those clever Clarences that can keep up a bluff, making out I know things I don't know. I couldn't deceive a setting hen or a Berlin wool antimacassar." Pearson swallowed something with effort. "You see, I fell into this thing KERCHUNK, and I'm just RATTLED I'm rattled."
It had once soared as high as autographs, and a promising beginning of three signatures were already pasted into the remaining leaves of an exercise-book. Whatever the collection might be, it lived in heaps on the uncarpeted floor; and when Betty had a tidy fit, was covered with a crochet antimacassar which had known better days, and had grown decidedly mellow in tint.
Aunt Olivia's parlour was much like herself painfully neat. Every article of furniture stood in exactly the same place it had always stood. Nothing was ever suffered to be disturbed. The tassels of the crazy cushion lay just so over the arm of the sofa, and the crochet antimacassar was always spread at precisely the same angel over the horsehair rocking chair.
Revenge is like a game at battle-door, wherein one can never tell who will have the last hit." "At the same time, it is one of those few luxuries which those who have least to lose can best afford," said Richard, with the air of a moralist. "It is not cheap, however, even to them," returned Mrs. Yorke, still busy with her antimacassar. "It may cost one one's life, for instance."
The oil known as macassar comes from Maugkasara, the name of a district in the island of Celebes. Antimacassar means literally a "protection against macassar oil," anti being the Latin word for "against." The tobacco known as Latakia takes its name from the town called by the Turks Latakia, the old town of Laodicea. Both the words bronze and copper come from the names of places.
She was leaning back in an arm-chair playing with the fringe of an antimacassar. "Oh, how tired I am of this horrid place!" she said suddenly. "And I have had a most wearying afternoon. Mr. Reffold seems to be more irritable every day. It is very hard that I should have to bear it." Bernardine listened to her in astonishment. "Yes," she added, "I am quite worn out.
As I passed the sitting-room I saw her tricked out as before in the hat and the antimacassar seated on the ottoman in front of the looking-glass. Heavens, she looked more frightful than ever! I made up my mind to speak to her at, once, and see if I could not stop such hideous mummery. But when I advanced I perceived that indeed I had come too late. The figure on the ottoman was rigid in death.
It was within a few minutes of the time fixed for our departure. Mr. Bundercombe nodded to me. "Very well," I agreed. "It shall be as you say." "I'll wait here," Lord Porthoning said in a trembling tone. "Mr. Bundercombe can come back for me after he has seen you off. He can go home with me in the motor. Take take care of those things." Mr. Bundercombe covered them over with an antimacassar.
But she was a sight for the gods. Seated on a kind of ottoman, directly in front of the looking-glass, she was holding an animated conversation with herself, wearing a large white antimacassar one of those crocheted things all in wheels pinned under her chin and falling away at the back like a cloak, and upon her head the wonderful scarlet hat! I was amazed, startled, dismayed.
A shawl too, or cloak, was always at hand, somehow, and had this not been so May would have thrown over her shoulders an antimacassar or table-cloth rather than cause delay, at least we think so, though we have no absolute authority for making the statement.
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