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Updated: May 28, 2025
In front of the blue-linen hood hangs a curtain, and the two side windows are also carefully curtained, with screens which permit the occupant to see out but not to be seen from without. Thus do high-class mandarins protect themselves, save themselves from having to descend whenever they meet a mandarin of equal or higher rank and prostrate themselves in the dust before him.
From the dust and mud on the thick little shoes, up over five visible inches of coarse grey stocking to clumsy amplitude of washed-out, pink-striped cotton skirt, and thence by severity of blue-linen blouse to the face lurking in the pale lavender of the quilted sun-bonnet, the eye met nothing which was not proper to the country-girl, dressed a little older, when the tail of hair swung to her body's movement, than her sixteen years required.
"I believe Miss Russell is coming out to play croquet to-night," she ventured desperately. "Is she? Oh! she promised I might be on her side next time. I wonder if she's there yet? I must go and see at once." "Thank goodness!" ejaculated Lindsay, as their classmate's blue-linen dress disappeared along the avenue.
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