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Updated: June 20, 2025
My daughter's name, well it's my own; and, though I say it, I'm respected a regular attendant I think I told you. Sometimes, I assure you, I feel I can't control myself, and it's only that and you, if I may say so, that keeps me in check." During this speech, his black-gloved hands were clenching and unclenching, and he shifted his broad, shining boots.
And here Lady Laura's plump little black-gloved hand squeezed Clarissa's tenderly. "You have been all goodness to me," the girl answered; "I can never be too grateful to you." "Nonsense, Clary; I will not have that word gratitude spoken between us. I only want you to understand that I am sincerely attached to you, and that I am the last person in the world to hold your happiness lightly.
Past her shot the little old lady in the bonnet, running incredibly fast, but otherwise still alertly respectable, and she was making a strange threatening sound as she ran, such as one would use in driving ducks out of a garden "B-r-r-r-r-r !" and pawing with black-gloved hands. The policemen were closing in from the sides to intervene.
To make it further telling, he took off his yellow bonnet with a black-gloved hand, and thumped the significant colours prominently on his immense chest an idea, not of Agostino's, but Lebruno's own; and Agostino cursed with fury.
Then she noticed how stout Jack had grown he would soon be almost as plethoric as Herbert Melson, who sat a few feet off, breathing puffily as he leaned his black-gloved hands on his stick. "I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.
As she a little, prim, mild woman, in her old-fashioned winter cape and her bonnet, with its stiff tuft of velvet pansies passed him, he caught her thin, black-gloved hand and drew her close to him. "I'm glad you are going to church, Eunice," he said. Eunice colored, and regarded him with a kind of abashed wonder. "Why don't you come, too, Henry?" she said, timidly.
They did not know how she had put them on to conceal the burn in her wrist which she had gotten in her blind fury as she flew about the kitchen preparing supper, handling all the household utensils as if they were weapons to attack Providence. Mrs. Maxwell poured the tea and portioned out the sugar with her black-gloved hands, and Mrs. Field stiffly buttered her biscuits.
Suddenly she covered her face with her black-gloved hands. The enfranchisement of the Seagrave twins proceeded too slowly to satisfy their increasing desire for personal liberty and their fast-growing impatience of restraint.
Although she had seen him only once before she knew him immediately because she had often studied the photograph which was inside the famous silver cigarette-case. The mistiness of vision troubled her anew as she held out her black-gloved hand. "Oh," she said huskily, "how good of you."
Wagge with a tall, crape-banded hat in his black-gloved hands, standing in the very centre of her drawing-room. He was staring into the garden, as if he had been vouchsafed a vision of that warm night when the moonlight shed its ghostly glamour on the sunflowers, and his daughter had danced out there.
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