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An old bachelor has got the right to sit closer to a girl-show than a married man." They drew up before a small table edging a shining area of reserved floor space and only once removed from the burnt-orange curtains. "A-ha!" exuded Mr. Samuel Kahn, his rather strongly aquiline face lifted in profile. "A-ha!" exuded Mr. Loeb, smiling out of eyes ten years younger. "What'll you have, Sam?"
She was wearing a rough, gray wool cloth dress, ornately banded with fringed Oriental embroidery in blue and burnt-orange, and her beauty was further enhanced by a gray hat planned to match her dress, with a plume of shaded orange and blue. On her fingers were four or five rings, far too many an opal, an emerald, a ruby, and a diamond flashing visibly as she played.
He rolled over on to his elbows and stared at the pale faces of a clump of wet primroses that stared back at him with an equal innocence of emotion. Beyond them the wild violets gleamed like faint blue flames, and the tightly-curled fronds of young bracken showed silvery grey amongst the litter of last year's stalks that lay in patches of a dead burnt-orange upon the grey-green turf.
There was a note of warning in his voice the cause of which Esther perceived when a moment later the couple were joined by a plump Frenchwoman with hennaed hair and a burnt-orange make-up. "Comment ça va, Thérèse? Ah, Captain, on me dit que vous avez l'intention de nous quitter. C'est vrai?" What ensued was lost in a cackle of French interspersed with high-pitched laughter.
She took another stitch in her collar, with Evelyn leaning against her and kicking out first one chubby leg, then the other, and she immediately erected new air-castles, in which she figured in her brown suit with the touches of burnt-orange and blue. A week later, when she started on the train for Wardway in her new attire, she felt entirely satisfied with herself and life in general.
The rings upon those pudgy fingers held longest his wandering eye, the blue-white fortune in the burnt-orange cravat. But all this seemed to kindle no approval. "Prosperous!" he muttered bitterly. "Prosperous! And yet I don't hate you like I did that superintendent. Just as much maybe, but not just the same. . . . Go away!"
They wore sarongs of the most exquisite colors purple, heliotrope, violet, rose, geranium, cerise, lemon, sky-blue, burnt-orange and they floated over the marble floor of the great hall like enormous butterflies.
She was conscious of looking charming in her new suit of brown, with the touches of blue and burnt-orange, and her new hat, also brown with blue and burnt-orange glimpses in the trimmings. Wollaston Lee got on the same car and sat behind her. There were only Maria, Wollaston, and Edwin Shaw, who sat by himself in a corner, facing the other passengers with a slightly shamed, sulky expression.
The sails of the fishing craft are of many colors, yellow, burnt-orange, vermilion.
Within the golden inclosure of the Moncrieff Roof, a ceiling canopied in deep waves of burnt-orange velvet cunningly concealed, yet disclosed, amber light, the color of wine in the pouring.
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