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She also cherished many charming memories of her mother, with dinner or ball-gown so prudently looped under her rain-coat that it gave her slender figure the proportions of the old-fashioned hoop-skirt; always laughing as she kissed the little girls good-night before braving the two flights of steps to the carriage at the foot of the cliff. Two years before her death Mrs.
"I'll stand on a stool with the ball-gown in the air ready to drop it over her head the moment she appears, like a harness on a fire-horse. Is everything out here done? What time is it?" "Yes; everything's done, and it's five minutes of eight. We can begin as soon as the audience is ready." They peered through the folds of the heavy velvet curtain at the sea of faces in front.
He was thinking of that first dash in the night together, she riding with the fury of a storm-witch, her ball-gown in ribbons, her splendid hair flashing, he galloping at her stirrup, putting his horse at a dark figure that rose in their path; and then the collision, the trample, the shots in the dark, and her round white shoulder seared with the bullet mark.
For me they are libraries where sometimes I read for a whole summer's day; and with the help of the hospital surgeon, I bring you from them a story about your ball-gown which is perfectly true.
"Isn't it wonderful," exclaimed Cora, appealing to the others to observe him, "what an improvement a disappointment in love can make in deportment?" For once, Hedrick only smiled. Laura had spent some thoughtful hours upon her black lace dress with results that astonished her family: it became a ball-gown and a splendidly effective one.
"One of the committee is to prompt, one is to stay with the men and see that they manage the curtain and the lights in the right places, one is to give the cues, and two are to help change costumes. Cynthia has to change from a riding-habit to a ball-gown in four minutes. I think you'd better help her, too." "Anything you please," said Patty, obligingly.
"Sister," faltered Anne, "I so desired to see your birth-night ball-gown, of which Mistress Margery hath much spoken I so desired I thought it would not matter if, the door being open and it spread forth upon the bed I I stole a look at it. And then I was tempted and came in."
As he pulled its edges from the frozen snow I came on him suddenly. "Oh, it's you, Sir!" He stood erect, and with the air of a man infinitely relieved. "Gervase!" The door opened wide and there stood Elaine in her ball-gown, a-glitter with diamonds. "Gervase, dear, where have you been? We have been terribly anxious "
A white ball-gown, such as he had never before seen, fashioned of tissue over lustrous white silk, swayed in diaphanous folds against him, for these were the days of voluminous draperies; a head of auburn hair elaborately dressed gleamed in the moonlight near his shoulder.
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